Francis Bacon1561–1626The quotations of
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman
1561–1626
25 quotes, most often on Knowledge, Reading and Friendship.
- Essays (1625)
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
- Essays, 52. ‘Of Ceremonies and Respects’
- Sir Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), 16, “Of Atheism”.
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Meditationes sacræ (1597), Of Studies- Apophthegms (1624), No. 97
- Meditationes sacræ (1597), Of Studies
- Apophthegms (1624), No. 36
- The World (1629)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Of Beauty- Novum Organum (1620), Book I, Aphorism 7
- Resuscitatio (1657), Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
- Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603), in Works, Vol. 1, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819), Vol. 2, p. 133
- De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, “Antitheta” (1623)
