Francis Bacon Quotes

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

The proper study of mankind is books.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

A good physician goes to be helpful where there is most sickness. So a good philosopher should be where there is most stupidity

Any time I found a new piece of knowledge or wisdom, I would thank Allah for it. Then Allah would bless me with more of it.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.