Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Source: Francis Bacon, Essays (1625); OF Travel. Complete Sentence: Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Source: Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity (1597).

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Source: Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Aphorism III. Cited in: Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), page: 419-23.

Knowledge is Power.

Source: Bacon’s Meditationes Sacrae (1597). Original Quote in Latin: Scientia Ipsa Potentia Est.

Knowledge is power.

Source: Francis Bacon, Meditationes sacræ (1597). Original Quote in Latin: ipsa scientia potestas est

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Source: Essays (1625); Of Studies by Francis Bacon. Complete Sentence: To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural Read More…