Francis Bacon Quotes on Truth
Francis Bacon was a 16th and early 17th-century English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, regarded as one of the founders of the modern scientific method and a major figure of early modern philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Francis Bacon on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
Of Beauty https://www.authorama.com/essays-of-francis-bacon-43.html -
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”
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“Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral (1597), XXIX: "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates.”
Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage ; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.