Francis Bacon

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Friends are thieves of time.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Science is but an image of the truth.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.