Wisdom Quote by Francis Bacon — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”

“A prudent question is one half of wisdom.”

“A prudent question is one half of wisdom.”

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.”

“Not everything buried is meant to stay hidden. Some truths wait for the right hands to lift them back into the light.”

“The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.”

“what choice she have given, in what price it cost to choose, what choice she have given.”

“If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”

“It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.”

“When you look back and realize someone was ahead of their time, it’s because you’re living the reality they built. Vision only ever seems obvious in hindsight.”