Nature Quotes

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Cyril Connolly

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

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

James A. Autry

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus, On the Universe

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

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

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

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.

Phillip Lubin

Adopt the pace of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle, Parts of Animals

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

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

Ingrid Bergman

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 Huxley

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beeche

It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Albert Einstein

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.

Katherine D. Ortega

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.

Tacitus

Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?

Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcou

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Edmund Spense

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle

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

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".

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton