Affection Quote by Francis Bacon

“The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and…

— Francis Bacon

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

— Giordano Bruno

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

— Francis Bacon

If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now…

— Watchman Nee

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

— Zoroaster

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Truly, "seeing is believing" - and many a man lives a long life through, thinking he believes certain universally received and well established things,…

— Mark Twain

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a…

— Clarence Darrow

In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“For by illumination in general, as it denotes an effect wrought in the minds of men, I understand that supernatural knowledge that any man…

— John Owen

“I believe a man’s finest hour often comes when he is at his weakest. When he is broken, affronted and at a place of…

— Jason Versey

“I pretend not to teach, but to inquire; and therefore cannot but confess here again,–that external and internal sensation are the only passages I…

— John Locke