Francis Bacon Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• 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

• Science is but an image of the truth.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Science, Scientist

• Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Needs, Fiction

• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Failure, Frustration

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.336

• Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

  Francis Bacon

  Dog, Truth, Errors

• No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Lying, Inspirational Life

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.511

• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Lying, Adventure

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

• Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Errors, Confusion

• What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Honesty, Answers

  Essays "Of Truth" (1625). The Biblical reference is to John 18:38.

• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Truth, Discovery

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

• Truth is a naked and open daylight

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Naked, Daylight

  Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.1

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

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Sovereign, Human Nature

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

• The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Science, Errors

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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