Nature Quotes
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.Nikita Khrushchev
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
Nature does not proceed by leaps.Linnaeus
Nature does nothing uselessly.Aristotle, Politics
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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
Man is by nature a political animal.Aristotle, Politics
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.Frank Lloyd Wright
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.Cicero
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
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
If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
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
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.Lao Tzu
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 most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.Erich Fromm
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.Henry Ward Beeche
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
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
People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.Ralph Waldo Emerson
