Being true Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being true Belief Believe Faith Learning Men True friend
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. — Blaise Pascal 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
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though we know… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
