Nature Quotes
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.Richard Feynman
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.William James
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.Hugh Blai
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, Mansfield Park
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.Johnson
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.Edmund Spense
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
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Mui
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.Richard Bach
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.Plato, The Republic
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
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
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
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
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.Socrates
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Hellen Kelle
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
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.Brigham Young
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.Francis Bacon
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.R. J. Baughan
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
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Robert Southey
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.Joseph Conrad
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.Arnold J. Toynbee
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.Voltaire
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
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
