Quote

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Francis Bacon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
Francis
Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
Temporary
Till
Fully
Judgment
Masters
Instructed
Learning
Suspension
Belief
Disciples
Disciple

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
Francis Bacon
Image
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.
Francis Bacon
Image
Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon
Image
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon
Image
I believe in deeply ordered chaos
Francis Bacon
Image
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Francis Bacon
Image
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon
Image
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Francis Bacon
Image
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
Francis Bacon
Image
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
Francis Bacon
Image
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
Image
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
Francis Bacon
Image
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Francis Bacon
Image
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
Francis Bacon
Image
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Francis Bacon
Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis Bacon
Image
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
Francis Bacon
Image
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life.
Francis Bacon