Quote of Francis Bacon - Truth is the daughter of...

Francis Bacon:

English philosopher and statesman.
Born: 1561 - Died: 1626
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Quote

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
Francis Bacon

Translation

(French, German, Italian, Latin)

French

La vérité est la fille du temps et non de l'autorité."
Francis Bacon

Die Wahrheit ist die Tochter der Zeit, nicht der Autorität."
Francis Bacon

La verità è figlia del tempo, non dell'autorità."

Recte enim Veritas Temporis filia dicitur, non auctoritatis."

Quotes about time:

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
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It takes a long time to become young."
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
Leonardo da Vinci

Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

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Quotes for: truth:

Love truth, but pardon error."
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Conformity of the intellect to the things."
Thomas Aquinas

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
Carl Gustav Jung

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful."
Victor Hugo

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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