5 Francis Bacon Quotes on Clarity

Francis Bacon quotes on clarity

6. Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

39. There are also Idols formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other, which I call Idols of the Market Place, on account of the commerce and consort of men there. For it is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into numberless empty controversies and idle fancies.

48. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

55. Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.

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