Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.