Best Quotes by Francis Bacon (Top 10)

  1. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
  2. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
  3. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
  4. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
  5. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
  6. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake...
  7. Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
  8. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
  9. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
  10. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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