Inspirational Quotations by Francis Bacon
- The sun, though it passes through dirty places,
yet remains as pure as before.
- If a man be gracious,
and courteous to strangers,
it shows he is a citizen of the world.
- They are ill discoverers who think there is no land,
when they can see nothing but sea.
- Knowledge itself is power.
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
- Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
- Man ought to know that in the theater of human life, it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators.
- Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
- Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repeat too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.