Francis Bacon Quotes About Learning

Quotes about: Learning

• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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

  Francis Bacon

  True Friend, Believe, Learning

  Novum Organum (1620).

• For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  "Collected Works of Francis Bacon".

• It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Mean, Men

  "New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

• The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Men, Genius

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.26, Jazzybee Verlag

• People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Learning, Thinking

• 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

• Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Prejudice, Suspense

• Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Years, Age

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.103, 谷月社

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