Nature Quotes
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
A man is related to all nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.Thomas Huxley
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.Tacitus
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.Jacob Brownowski
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.L. M. K. Boelter, 1957
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.Marquis de Vauvenargues
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
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.Brigham Young
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.Thomas Huxley
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.R. J. Baughan
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
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.Alfred A. Montapert
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Cyril Connolly
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978
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 nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.Frances Burnett
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - - - And another woman to help him forget them.Helen Rowland
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
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
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
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.Jane Austen, Emma
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.Henry G. Stott, 1907
