Nature Quotes
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win.Paul Jones
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.W. Somerset Maugham
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.Joseph Conrad
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.Galileo Galilei
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.Waldo Frank
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Hellen Kelle
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.Henry Ward Beeche
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.Solomon Short
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.John Updike
Human reason is by nature architectonic.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.Kahlil Gibran
A father is a banker provided by nature.French Prove
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.Henry Kissinge
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - Matter is eternal.Horace Binney
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw
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
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
