Francis Bacon Quotes · Page 2
1561 – 1626
English philosopher and statesman, author of the "Essays" and "Novum Organum".
45 quotesAbout Francis Bacon on Wikipedia
“The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power.”
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument.”
“Truth, therefore, and utility are here perfectly identical.”
“The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain.”
“It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.”
“But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.”
“The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man.”
“Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas.”
“There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth.”
“Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.”
“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
“Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.”
