Degrees Quote by Francis Bacon

“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.”

— Francis Bacon

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

— Thaddeus Stevens

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people',…

— Anthony Browne

We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in…

— Andy Muschietti

I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice,…

— Russell Simmons

“Those who are threatened by marriage equality are, many things suggest, as threatened by the idea of equality between heterosexual couples as same-sex couples.…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature…

— 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…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and…

— Francis Bacon

The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false…

— Francis Bacon