4 Francis Bacon Quotes on Reality

Francis Bacon quotes on reality

22. We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

28. Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

57. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

65. Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.