Francis Bacon Quotes about Belief
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
'Novum Organum' (1620) bk. 1, Aphorism 49 (translated by J. Spedding).
Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.18