Quotes by Bacon, Francis

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution >>

Consistency is the foundation of virtue. >>

Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old m >>

Quotations about Certainty

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the seco >>

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. >>

Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens >>

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis