Francis Bacon Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

  Francis Bacon

  Daughter, Mother, Time

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

• The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

  Francis Bacon

  Order, Numbers, Support

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.56

• Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

  Francis Bacon

  Teaching, Voice, Justice

• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

  Francis Bacon

  Power, Too Much, Authority

• The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

  Francis Bacon

  Sacrifice, Support, Understanding

• Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

  Francis Bacon

  Exercise, Men, Return

• Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Progress

• All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.334

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