Francis Bacon Quotes

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.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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

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

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

I like to open people's eyes.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

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

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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