Sir Francis Bacon Quotes

Choosing one's own time is gaining time.

Discretion is a virtue, without which the others cease to be so.

A man is no more than what he knows.

The time is the measure of business, just as money is the measure of goods.

A young person in years can be old in hours, if they have not wasted time.

The discoveries already achieved are due to chance and common experience rather than to science.

Logic, given the misuse that is made of it, is worth more to stabilize and perpetuate errors cemented on the ground of common ideas than to lead to the discovery of truth.

The antiquity of time is the youth of the world.

As far as action is concerned, man can do nothing but approach or separate natural bodies; everything else is done by nature.

Nothing induces a man to suspect much like knowing little.

Only by obeying it does one subdue nature.

The states are large machines that move slowly.