Francis Bacon Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• 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 that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And 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 it.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Mirrors, Race

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

• Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, Overcoming

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Nature in Men'

• The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Inquiry, Sovereign

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

• There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Nature, Fool

  1625 Essays, no.12,'Of Boldness'.

• Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Sovereign, Human Nature

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

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