Nature Quotes
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!William Shakespeare
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.James A. Autry
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
All men by nature desire knowledge.Aristotle, Metaphysics
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.Athenus
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw
Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcou
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.George E. Woodbury
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.Johnson
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.Vincent Van Gogh
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.Anatole France
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.Nikita Khrushchev
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.Tacitus
Human reason is by nature architectonic.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
All art is an imitation of nature.Seneca
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.Stephen Jay Gould
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fulle
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
