Francis Bacon Quotes About Time
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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.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Time is the author of authors.
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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.
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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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.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
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Francis Bacon
- Born: January 22, 1561
- Died: April 9, 1626
- Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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