Natural Quotes

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

There are so many health food nuts out there that eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible.

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

Lawyers are natural politicians.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.