Francis Bacon (1561-1626) quotes

• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
• A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
• For also knowledge itself is power.
• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
• If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
• It is natural to die as to be born.
• Knowledge is power.
• Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
• Opportunity makes a thief.
• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
• The place of justice is a hallowed place.
• The remedy is worse then the disease.
• The worst men often give the best advice.
• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
• There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
• Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.