6 Francis Bacon Quotes on Judgment

Francis Bacon quotes on judgment

15. Time, which is the author of authors.

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.

84. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.

113. The greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure; and the greatness of finances and revenue, doth fall under computation. The population may appear by musters; and the number and greatness of cities and towns by cards and maps. But yet there is not any thing amongst civil affairs more subject to error, than the right valuation and true judgment concerning the power and forces of an estate.

124. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

141. Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.