Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Francis Bacon

All colours will agree in the dark.

Francis Bacon

All painting is an accident. But it’s also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Francis Bacon

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Francis Bacon

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Francis Bacon