Francis Bacon Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• By far the best proof is experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Experience, Belief

• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

  Francis Bacon

  True Friend, Believe, Learning

  Novum Organum (1620).

• Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Bending, Bows

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1834). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.213

• Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Envy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Belief

  'Novum Organum' (1620) bk. 1, Aphorism 49 (translated by J. Spedding).

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

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Light

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

  Francis Bacon

  Prayer, Believe, Law

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

• 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'

• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

• Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Belief, Judgment

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.18

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