Famous Quotes
- People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
- Bodhidharma on Nature
- Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Nature
- Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- Wallace Stevens on Nature
- Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
- David Hume on Nature
- Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
- Pope Paul VI on Nature
- Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
- Horace Walpole on Nature
- Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
- Thomas Hardy on Nature
- Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
- William Hazlitt on Nature
- Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Nature
- Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
- Wallace Stevens on Nature
- Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
- Mason Cooley on Nature
- Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
- Paul Cezanne on Nature
- Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
- David Deutsch on Nature
- Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
- Orson Welles on Nature
- Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver on Nature
- Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard P. Feynman on Nature
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- Virginia Woolf on Nature
- Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Nature
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- Ambrose Bierce on Nature
- Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
- Adam Smith on Nature
- Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
- Noam Chomsky on Nature
- Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
- John Lubbock on Nature
- Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
- Albert Camus on Nature
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- Francis Bacon on Nature
- Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
- Oliver Goldsmith on Nature
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
- Lord Acton on Nature
- Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
- John Keats on Nature
- Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
- Max Planck on Nature
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller on Nature
- Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
- Samuel Butler on Nature
- Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
- Andrew Marvell on Nature
- Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
- Franz Kafka on Nature
- Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
- Marilyn Monroe on Nature
- Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Nature
- Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
- Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
- Lauryn Hill on Nature
- Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
- Thomas Huxley on Nature
- Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
- Alexander Pope on Nature
- Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
- Marshall McLuhan on Nature
- Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill on Nature
- Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
- Manolo Blahnik on Nature
- Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller on Nature
- Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
- Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
- Pierre Schaeffer on Nature
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Nature
- Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
- Robin Williams on Nature
- Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
- Doug Larson on Nature
- Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
- Francis Bacon on Nature
- Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Nature
- Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
- Gustave Flaubert on Nature
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