Nature Quotes
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.Plato, The Republic
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.Edmund Burke
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
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.Mother Theresa
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Mui
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
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.Dick Gregory
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
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
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.Sir Philip Sidney
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.Anatole France
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.Clive Lewis
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
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
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.Richard Feynman
It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.John Ruskin
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
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.Katherine D. Ortega
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.Seneca
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
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
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.Joan Borysenko
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.Fran Lebowitz
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.Cicero
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
