 | Patrick Collinson - Religion - 2006 - 314 pages
...heresy.29 The century had turned before Francis Bacon in his essay Of Truth wrote his famous lir\e: 'What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer'. But the sixteenth century was already familiar with Bacon's answerless question. It appears that when... | |
 | C. G. Prado - Philosophy - 2006 - 208 pages
...intended is better reflected in Francis Bacon's rendition of the biblical passage quoted above: "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer" (Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 1980, #28, 27). Bacon better captures the mocking nature of Pilate's... | |
 | William Domnarski - Law - 2009 - 221 pages
...for no one could outdo him. I often think of the opening lines of his first essay, 'Of Truth': 'What is truth' said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.' I wonder if Pilate could have gotten an answer by staying?"82 The temptation is to say that Jackson... | |
 | Norah Morgan, Juliana Saxton - Education - 2006 - 162 pages
...analogy must stop there! Questioning is far too important to rely on the scattergun approach; "What is truth?" said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer. — Sir Francis Bacon (quoted in Cambridge, 1949, p. 1) Let us labour then, to think well: this is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 2007 - 157 pages
...ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL I OP TRUTH TT TTHAT is tmthf said jesting Pilate, and would not I/I/ stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight...giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting1 free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that... | |
 | William F. Woo - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 213 pages
...least in its whole. Do you know that famous line from Francis Bacon, the early English essayist? What is truth, said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. In a way, one that is entirely untheological, that's the journalist's dilemma, but I'll get to that... | |
 | Jennifer Lee Carrell - Fiction - 2007 - 444 pages
...of the truth?" Leaning back against the wall, he slid to the floor, his face in his hands. " 'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Bacon's phrase." He lifted his head. "I don't fear truth, Kate. I fear facts. The tyranny of petty... | |
 | Jeffrey Miller - Fiction - 2007 - 291 pages
...everthoughtful) editor, Edna Barker, provided useful suggestions as we searched for a new title. "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. " — Francis Bacon, Essays, "Of Truth" PART I The Socratic Method i PART II Spreading False News ei... | |
 | John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 244 pages
...rhetorical questions. Francis Bacon begins his examination of truth by invoking the Gospel of John: 'What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; And would not stay for an Answer. Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse; And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe."25 The study of forgery has attracted many modern... | |
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WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness', and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. 
