Francis Bacon Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Weed, Nature

• Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Powerful, Science

  Francis Bacon (1858). “The Works”, p.79

• Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Weed, Nature

  Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

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