Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
