Famous Quotes
- To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
- Auguste Rodin on Nature
- To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on Nature
- Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Nature
- Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Nature
- Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
- Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Nature
- Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
- Blaise Pascal on Nature
- Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
- Daisaku Ikeda on Nature
- Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
- David Gerrold on Nature
- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
- Walter Scott on Nature
- Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
- Bernard Meltzer on Nature
- Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Nature
- Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
- Rutherford B. Hayes on Nature
- Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Nature
- We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
- Anthony Hopkins on Nature
- We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
- Sue Grafton on Nature
- We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
- Marco Rubio on Nature
- We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
- We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature
- We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
- Ellsworth Huntington on Nature
- We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
- Benjamin Carson on Nature
- We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
- Patrick Henry on Nature
- We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
- David Suzuki on Nature
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon on Nature
- We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Nature
- We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
- Abdolkarim Soroush on Nature
- We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- William Hazlitt on Nature
- We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
- David Ogden Stiers on Nature
- We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
- Jules Verne on Nature
- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- Edmund Burke on Nature
- We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Nature
- We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.
- George Lincoln Rockwell on Nature
- We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
- Paul Cezanne on Nature
- We must return to nature and nature's god.
- Luther Burbank on Nature
- We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Nature
- We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa on Nature
- We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature
- We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Nature
- We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein on Nature
- We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
- Clarence Day on Nature
- We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
- Christian Nestell Bovee on Nature
- Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
- Edgar Allan Poe on Nature
- What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin on Nature
- What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
- Hermann Hesse on Nature
- What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
- Dominic Monaghan on Nature
- What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau on Nature
- What is art? Nature concentrated.
- Honore De Balzac on Nature
- What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Nature
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
- James Madison on Nature
- What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau on Nature
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