Top 40 Of Truth By Bacon Quotes
#1. The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
Francis Bacon
#3. It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.
Michel Ney
#4. Every American is free to do anything at all here in this supposedly great free country. Why don't they use their freedom and liberty to pursue happiness?
Matthew Quick
#5. Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights ... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
Francis Bacon
#6. Mr Gray didn't care much for Jonesy's body (or so he told himself; in truth it was hard not to feel at least some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as 'bacon' and 'murder'), but it did have to take him another couple of hundred miles.
Stephen King
#7. When people are uneducated, or simply lack curiosity to seek knowledge, change appears as a frightening unknown. Such fear leads to aggression, even violence.
Jean Sasson
#8. Lord Bacon said, "Writing makes an exact man." He spoke the truth. Writing produces exactitude by forcing you to set down ideas in logical relation to one another. Writing crystallizes your thoughts and makes your ideas specific.
John Haggai
#9. It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.
Alex Flinn
#10. To live an oversized life is to make a mockery of your destiny. Many can't prosper because the life they are living is bigger than them.
Patience Johnson
#11. 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
#12. Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon
#13. There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.
Roger Bacon
#16. But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.
Francis Bacon
#18. There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.
Roger Bacon
#19. Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon.
Mango Wodzak
#20. A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
Francis Bacon
#21. 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
#22. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
Francis Bacon
#23. Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
#24. Art always springs from a surplus of life
Marty Rubin
#25. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Francis Bacon
#26. 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
#27. The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what.
Ruth Ford Elward
#28. Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
Henry George
#29. Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
Monica Bellucci
#30. Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
Nicholas Kristof
#31. Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
Joe Eszterhas
#32. Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
Roger Bacon
#33. I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.
Jason Aldean
#34. Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon
#35. Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
#36. If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics ...
Roger Bacon
#37. People going to see the Mona Lisa, not to look at it, but because it's the Mona Lisa
Paul Pope
#38. What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
#39. The essential form of knowledge ... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.
Francis Bacon
#40. Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
Francis Bacon
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