Quotes: Francis Bacon

"Education is what remains after the facts are gone."

–– Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Irish-born British painter 

via: Commonplace Book 2006-2009, 2007, p. 189. 

Quotes: Francis Bacon

"Age appears to be best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read."  

–– Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Irish-born British painter 

via: Sketchbook 29, 2016, p. 124. 

Quotes: Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." 

–– Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher and statesman 

via: Sketchbook 19, 2012, p. 114