Of Truth

Prose | Francis Bacon

Of Truth Brief Questions

Of Truth Brief Questions

How does the author compare truth? (NU. 2013) ✪✪✪

Ans: Because the truth is naked and open in daylight. It is like a pearl that shines in the daylight, not a diamond that shines in the candlelight.

What is truth compared to? (NU. 2021) ✪✪✪

Ans: Pearl.

Why do people like the mixture of a lie with the truth?

Ans: It gives people the taste of making vain hopes, false valuations, and imaginations. 

Why do people want to avoid the truth? (NU. 2022) ✪✪✪

Ans. People want to avoid the truth because of their natural but corrupt love for lies.

How does a lie affect humanity?

Ans: Telling a lie in many matters of human life makes it “false and perfidious”. Lier “faces with God and shrinks from humanity.”

Who was Pilate? (NU. 2016, 20) ✪✪✪

Ans: Pontius Pilate was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea.

What is the “sovereign good” of human nature?

Ans: The love for truth or seeking after truth is the “sovereign good” of human nature.

Why do people have a tendency to avoid truth? (NU. 2018)

Ans: Because of their natural but corrupt love for lies.

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