Nature Quotes
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
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
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Cyril Connolly
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra".
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
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
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
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.Edmund Spense
There is no place in nature for extinction.Licretius
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.Waldo Frank
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
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
Human reason is by nature architectonic.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
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
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
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
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.Dorothea Brande
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
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".
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
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
All men by nature desire knowledge.Aristotle, Metaphysics
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
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.Alfred A. Montapert
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)
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
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.Auguste Renoi
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.Edmund Burke
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.Henry Kissinge
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.Francis Bacon
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw
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
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
