Francis Bacon Quotes

654 quotes · Philosopher, Statesman

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Francis Bacon Quotes

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

Philosophical

“Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.”

Science Intellectual Tools

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

Philosophical

“Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.”

Numbers Army Sheep

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Philosophical

“I hold every man a debtor to his profession.”

Men Society

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Philosophical

“People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.”

People Funny

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Philosophical

“Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.”

Men Knowledge Relief

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Philosophical

“The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.”

Men Science Medicine

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Philosophical

“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”

Care Justice

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Philosophical

“The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.”

Wise Seems

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Philosophical

“O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.”

Life Age

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Philosophical

“Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.”

Inspiration Speech

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Philosophical

“Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.”

Eye Green

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Philosophical

“It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.”

Secret Change

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