Francis Bacon Quotes

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Francis Bacon

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• Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Lost
  • Feet
  • Ground

• I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Work
  • Home
  • Sure

• Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Public

• The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Think
  • Best
  • Politics

• I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Distance

• I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Society

• I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I like to look at things that have been developed and re-developed over the course of time so I know the bugs are worked out of it. And in the business itself, I like to look at sales, by far. I want to see that there is a vetted track record of sales to show the price point has worked.

  

  Daymond John
  • Time
  • Business
  • Sales

• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Power
  • Political
  • Justice

• CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Real
  • Done
  • Risk

• The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

  

  Louise Slaughter
  • Women
  • Job
  • Care

• Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Important
  • Admit
  • Cliche

• When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • America
  • Sexuality
  • Sensuality

• My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.

  

  Ravi Zacharias
  • Different
  • More
  • Religions

• I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Beautiful

• Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Labor
  • Activity
  • Leisure

• The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opinion
  • Authority
  • Distinction

• The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Church
  • Believes
  • False

• The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Believes
  • Human Understanding
  • Infusion