Nature Quotes
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
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
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.George E. Woodbury
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.David Hume
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.Charles Robert Darwin
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
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
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure.Lyndon B. Johnson
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.William Shakespeare
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
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
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win.Paul Jones
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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
Nature is wont to hide herself.Heraclitus, On the Universe
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.Arthur C. Clarke
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.Marcus Aureluis
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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.Hugh Blai
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
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
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
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.Blaise Pascal
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
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
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.Werner Heisenberg
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
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.Galileo Galilei
