Nature Quotes
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
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.Alan Bleasdale
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.Henry David Thoreau
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.Phillip Lubin
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.Robert Ingersoll
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
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The holy passion of Friendship is of 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
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
Nature is wont to hide herself.Heraclitus, On the Universe
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.Albert Camus
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.Marcus Aureluis
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - They are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.Henri - Frederic Amiel
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
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.Cicero
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.Henry Ward Beeche
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.Cicero
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it - - For them everything must be sought in things themselves.Francis Bacon
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.Auguste Renoi
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.Franoise Mallet - Joris
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.Walter Bagehot
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.Socrates
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.Mark Twain
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
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
