Francis Bacon Quotes

By far the best proof is experience.

For knowledge itself is power.

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Knowledge is power!
I know this quote is very popular, but it means to me a lot. Starting the journey of self-development since I was a freshman, I can see myself change and improve so quickly.
Really want to see how far I can go in the future ...

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it.
Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

İnsanların umutlarını ustaca, kurnazca beslemek, böylece onları bir umuttan ötekine koşturmak, hoşnutsuzluk ağrısına karşı en etkili ilaçlardan biridir.

He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.

Those who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and understood, whether they have spoken in simple assurance or professional affectation, have therein done philosophy and the sciences great injury. For as they have been successful in inducing belief, so they have been effective in quenching and stopping inquiry; and have done more harm by spoiling and putting an end to other men's efforts than good by their own. Those on the other hand who have taken a contrary course, and asserted that absolutely nothing can be known — whether it were from hatred of the ancient sophists, or from uncertainty and fluctuation of mind, or even from a kind of fullness of learning, that they fell upon this opinion — have certainly advanced reasons for it that are not to be despised; but yet they have neither started from true principles nor rested in the just conclusion, zeal and affectation having carried them much too far.... Now my method, though hard to practice, is easy to explain; and it is this. I propose to establish progressive stages of certainty. The evidence of the sense, helped and guarded by a certain process of correction, I retain. But the mental operation which follows the act of sense I for the most part reject; and instead of it I open and lay out a new and certain path for the mind to proceed in, starting directly from the simple sensuous perception.

Es error peculiar y perpetuo del entendimiento humano el que lo mueva y lo estimule más lo afirmativo que lo negativo.

The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying.

And generally let every student of nature take this as a rule: that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion, and that so much the more care is to be taken in dealing with such questions to keep the understanding even and clear.

I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle, if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.

To spend too much time in them [studying] is sloth, to use them too much for ornament is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor* of a scholar….