Nature Quotes

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Nature is stronger than education.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

Politics isn't in my nature.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

If you looked at Jeb Bush's campaign, it's more than just money. It's the nature of the candidate and the message and all that stuff.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.

There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

I believe pain is nature's way of saying, 'You're still alive, and life sucks.'

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That's what women do a lot - they're the glue between a lot of things.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.