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Understanding Quotes by Francis Bacon
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things…
- Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding…
- No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,…
- The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then…
- Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which…
- There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found…
- The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of…
- The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And…
- The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion…
- The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with…
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- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon