Nature Quotes
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - Instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.Dale Carnegie
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.William James
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
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.Sydney Smith
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
Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.R. E. Hellmund, 1929
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes
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
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.Charles de Montesquieu
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.Elisha Potte
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy
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 herself makes the wise man rich.Cicero
This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
Human reason is by nature architectonic.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.A. J. Toynbee
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
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.Francis Bacon
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.Jacob Brownowski
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
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.Edmund Burke
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Cyril Connolly
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty - Five?Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203 - 1207.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not proceed by leaps.Linnaeus
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
