The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;… — 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 Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
