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Francis Bacon Quotes about Time

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

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

Francis Bacon
Birthday, Time, Men

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

Francis Bacon
Life, Success, Time

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

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'

Time is the author of authors.

Francis Bacon
Time

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

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

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

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'

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