Francis Bacon Quotes

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

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

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

What I care about is maximum information.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Ignorance never settles a question.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts