Nature Quotes
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.Cicero
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.Mark Twain
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
This is the true nature of home - - It is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.Mary Wilson Little
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.Richard Bach
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.Charles Baudelaire
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.Tacitus
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.Maitri Upanishads
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.Henry Ward Beeche
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.Henry Kissinge
This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.Henrik Ibsen
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.William James
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.Sydney Smith
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Mui
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.Athenus
It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.Albert Einstein
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.Cicero
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
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
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.William Shakespeare
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.George E. Woodbury
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.Nikita Khrushchev
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.Edmund Burke
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.Charles de Montesquieu
