Quotes by Bacon, Francis

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but en >>

God's first creature, which was light. >>

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the >>

Quotations about Doubt

Doubt is the father of invention. >>

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the rank >>

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized >>

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Bacon, Francis