Francis Bacon Quotes About Writing
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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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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
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Francis Bacon
- Born: January 22, 1561
- Died: April 9, 1626
- Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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