Quotes by Bacon, Francis

To choose time is to save time. >>

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; >>

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than >>

Quotations about Certainty

Certainties are arrived at only on foot. >>

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 >>

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis