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Francis Bacon Quotes about Understanding

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

Understanding, Limits, Universe

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Choices, Understanding, Statistics

Francis Bacon (1985). “The Essays”, p.423, Penguin UK

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Nature, Understanding, Subtlety

1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism10.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Order, Understanding, World

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

Nature, Eye, Understanding

Francis Bacon (1854). “The Works of Lord Bacon: Philosophical works”, p.96

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

Science, Law, Understanding

Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 4”, p.246

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.

Support, Understanding, Opinion

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.56

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Thinking, Errors, Understanding

Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

Knowledge, Science, Understanding

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

Sacrifice, Support, Understanding

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Real, Confusion, Understanding

Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

Science, Sight, Understanding

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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.

Science, Imagination, Understanding

Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

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

Science, Understanding, Enquiry

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Order, Understanding, Degrees

Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

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