"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-l...












Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
More Francis Bacon (artist) quotes
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
"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, whi...
"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 math...
"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, t...
"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-l...
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
"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, whi...
"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 math...
"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, t...