6 Francis Bacon Quotes on Mind

Francis Bacon quotes on mind

45. The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.

66. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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

95. I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

121. Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.

136. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.