Nature Quotes
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
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
It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.Tacitus
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
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.Aristotle, Politics
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.Marylin Monroe
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract".
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.Henry David Thoreau
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.George Crabbe
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.Author Unknown
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.Albert Camus
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.Alexander Hamilton
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Nature hates calculators.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is by nature a political animal.Aristotle, Politics
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 Aurelius Antoninus
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.Robert Ingersoll
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.R. J. Baughan
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.Tacitus
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.Sallust
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.Pietro Aretino
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
