Quotes by Sir Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
("Of Beauty")

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
("Of Death")

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
(Essays: Of Building, 1623)

Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)
(Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. - 1597)

In charity there is no excess.
(Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature - 1625)

Knowledge is power.
(Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597)

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
(The Advancement of Learning, 1605)