For also knowledge itself is power.
More Quotes from Francis Bacon:
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
Francis Bacon
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
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