Nature Quotes
Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
It's slow. It's inch by inch. But nature always bats last. The planet isn't going anywhere.
Often, what people don't say tell you more about the nature of their insecurities than what they do say.
Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.
Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.
The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
