Nature Quotes

Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man’s rebellion against God.

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.

Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.

Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

What a piece of work is man!

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

He's got a can up there, ' Richard said.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

the impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes, ) which nature cannot repair.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

Come with me into the woods where spring isadvancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but oneof the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.

Men argue nature acts.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the "Survival of the fittest" is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.