Francis Bacon Quotes

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

I think you can learn from history.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

History is my biggest teacher.

History is clarified experience.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

You learn from everything.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.