Nature Quotes
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
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.George Gordon Byron
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
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)
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.Arthur C. Clarke
Nature is wont to hide herself.Heraclitus, On the Universe
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.Henry Ward Beeche
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
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
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
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
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
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.Thomas Huxley
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.Thomas Paine
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!William Shakespeare
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
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.Frank Lloyd Wright
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
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
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
Nature loves a burst of energy.Boe Lightman
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.Margaret Fulle
More men have become great through practice than by nature.Democritus
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
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
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.William Rotsle
People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.George E. Woodbury
We still do not know one - Thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
