Francis Bacon Quotes on Truth (15 Quotes)

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a mans mind ... turn upon the poles of truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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.

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.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Science is but an image of the truth.

It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

This same Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle lights.

For it is esteemed a kind of dishonour unto learning to descend to inquiry or meditation upon matters mechanical, except they be such as may be thought secrets, rarities, and special subtleties, which humour of vain supercilious arrogancy is justly derided in Plato.... But the truth is, they be not the highest instances that give the securest information as may well be expressed in the tale ... of the philosopher, that while he gazed upwards to the stars fell into the water for if he had looked down he might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass, that mean and small things discover great, better than great can discover the small.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

There are three parts in truth first, the inquiry, which is the wooing of it secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it.