Francis Bacon Quotes About Truth
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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Science is but an image of the truth.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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Truth is a naked and open daylight
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
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Francis Bacon
- Born: January 22, 1561
- Died: April 9, 1626
- Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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