Source: The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
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Famous Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: The Works of Lord Bacon: Philosophical works
“The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
Source: Selected Philosophical Works
“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”
“The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.”
Source: Translations of the philosophical works
“That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Source: The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature
“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis
Source: Selected Philosophical Works
“In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes