Francis Bacon Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Success, Time

• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

• He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Time, Acceptance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

  Francis Bacon

  Daughter, Mother, Time

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

• Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Ancient, Latter

  Francis Bacon (1838). “The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay”, p.269

• Time is the author of authors.

  Francis Bacon

  Time

• Time is the greatest innovator.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Time, Innovation

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

• If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Knowledge, Knows

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Discourse'

• Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Business, People

• No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Artist, Years

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

• In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Powerful, Ideas

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