Quotes
from Francis Bacon - Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion
“A
false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy”
―
Francis Bacon
“The
human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the
received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to
support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of
instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and
despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by
this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former
conclusions may remain inviolate.”
―
Francis Bacon, The New Organon
“Truth
is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries,
and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A
mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”
―
Francis Bacon
“Truth
will sooner come out from error than from confusion.”
―
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
“For
myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of
Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances
of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their
subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to
doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider,
carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither
affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of
imposture." -Francis Bacon ”
―
Bacon, Francis
“Constancy
is the foundation of virtues”
―
Francis Bacon
“There
was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of
the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to
love, and to be wise.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Virtue
is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for
prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“God
never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince
it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but
depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Certainly,
it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in
providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Things
alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better
designedly.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Revenge
is a king of wild justice.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Let
every student of nature take this as a rule,-- that whatever his mind seizes
and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.”
―
Francis Bacon, The New Organon
“Crafty
men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they
teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won
by observation.”
―
Francis Bacon
“For
the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of
mathematics.”
―
Francis Bacon
“REVENGE
is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought
law to weed it out.”
―
Sir Francis Bacon
“For
the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of
mathematics.”
―
Francis Bacon
“So
if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
