Nature Quotes
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.Voltaire
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.David Hume
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.John F. Kennedy
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
A brother is a friend given by Nature.Legouve
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.Author Unknown
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.Mark Twain
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
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
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.William Shakespeare
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Cyril Connolly
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
The holy passion of Friendship is 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
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
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
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
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 Aelius Aurelius
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
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
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.Vincent Van Gogh
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.Berenson
We still do not know one - Thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.Titus Livius
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.Aristotle, Politics
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.Edmund Spense
