Nature Quotes

Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

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

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

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

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

John Calvin

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

We still do not know one - Thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Sterne

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