Francis Bacon Quotes

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I generally will answer any question about anything.

If I knew the answer to that question, I would disclose it.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

I trust no one, not even myself.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I lack trust in others.

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

I trust no one totally.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

The more I see the less I know for sure.