Nature Quotes

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Mui

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beeche

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Democritus

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Richard Feynman

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)

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

Sterne

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

Jim Morrison

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Theresa

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigne

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

Mary Ann Brussat

Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

A father is a banker provided by nature.

French Prove

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A. A. Milne

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

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.

Stephen Jay Gould

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

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

Cicero

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

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

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

S. E. Lindsay, 1920

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Franoise Mallet - Joris

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.

Jacob Brownowski

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

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson