Francis Bacon Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• 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

• 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".

• Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Simplicity, Secret

• There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Religious, Law

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.526

• Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

• 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

• Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Deceit, Substance

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.538

• The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Book, Knowledge

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Support, Understanding, Opinion

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

• Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Taken, Men

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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