Francis Bacon Quotes
1561 – 1626
English philosopher and statesman, author of the "Essays" and "Novum Organum".
45 quotesAbout Francis Bacon on Wikipedia
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
“I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.”
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“All knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
“Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
“The sun passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.”
