“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”

— Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), "Of Studies"

About Francis Bacon

1561 – 1626

English philosopher and statesman, author of the "Essays" and "Novum Organum".

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.”

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”