Francis Bacon Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Knowledge is true opinion.

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

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

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.

Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.