Francis Bacon Quotes

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

only a fool would argue with a fool!

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.