"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

"The greatest impediment to knowledge is the presumption of knowledge."

"The Idols of the Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all p…"

"The Idols of the Theatre are not innate, nor do they steal into the understanding from the secret channels of the mind, but are plainly impressed and received from the various dogmas of philosophies, …"

"For the mind of man is strangely disposed to give credit to such things as it doth wish were true."