Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He is also known as a proponent of the scientific revolution. Indeed, according to John Aubrey, his dedication may have brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments. (Wikipedia)

Western Philosophy Renaissance philosophy
Sir Francis Bacon
Name	Francis Bacon
Birth	January 22, 1561(1561-01-22)
Death	April 9, 1626 (aged 65)
School/tradition	Empiricism
Influences	Democritus, Plato, Alhazen, Roger Bacon
Influenced	Diderot, Hobbes, Hume

• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
  
  
• Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
  
  
• For also knowledge itself is power.
  
  
• Friends are thieves of time.
  
  
• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
  
  
• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
  
  
• It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
  
  
• It is impossible to love and to be wise.
  
  
• Knowledge is power.
  
  
• Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
  
  
• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
  
  
• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
  
  
• Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
  
  
• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
  
  
• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
  
  
• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
  
  
• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.