3 Francis Bacon Quotes on Cognition

Francis Bacon quotes on cognition

36. There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names - calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe ; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.

43. :it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives:

44. The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.