Find a Quote of Francis Bacon

-A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

-He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

-I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

-If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

-Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

-Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

-Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

-They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

-Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

-We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.