Quotes by Francis Bacon Sr

Knowledge itself is power

#Knowledge

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

#Beauty

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

#Beauty

Knowledge and human power are synonymous

#Knowledge, #Wisdom

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions,...

#Learning, #Men, #Opinions

The worst men often give the best advice.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and...

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge...

#Power

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek...

#Liberty, #Power

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

#Knowledge, #Word

To choose time is to save time.

#Choice, #Time

This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man...

#Knowledge