Nature Quotes

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

Aristotle

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

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sallust

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty - Five?

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

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

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

A man is related to all nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

I am at two with nature.

Woody Allen

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

David Hume

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.

Maitri Upanishads

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.

Jacob Brownowski

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

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

William Ralph Inge

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

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.

Elisha Potte

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Blaise Pascal

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Francis Bacon

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

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Athenus

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

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.

L. M. K. Boelter, 1957

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.

Solomon Short

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

James A. Autry

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.

California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract".

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle, Politics

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

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

Marie Curie