Nature Quotes (1673)
nature quotes in english
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration... view
By: Carol P. Christ
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature... view
By: John Chrysostom
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense... view
By: Charles Churchill
Thou strange piece of wild nature!.. view
By: Colley Cibber
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live... view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature abhors annihilation... view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth... view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?.. view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature... view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason... view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature... view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another... view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error... view
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares... view
By: John Clare
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check... view
By: John Bates Clark
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required... view
By: Adam Clarke
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal... view
By: Arthur C. Clarke
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills... view
By: Albert Claude
I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole.. view
By: Karl Von Clausewitz
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating... view
By: Karl Von Clausewitz
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible... view
By: James Clavell
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art... view
By: Montgomery Clift
We are not by nature cruel... view
By: J. M. Coetzee
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature... view
By: Harold Coffin
Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever... view
By: Andrew Cohen
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art... view
By: Frank Moore Colby
You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses... view
By: Edwin Louis Cole
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is... view
By: Juan Cole
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory... view
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature.. view
By: Jeremy Collier
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light... view
By: Wilkie Collins
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws... view
By: John Coltrane
Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature... view
By: Jennifer Connelly
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose... view
By: Cyril Connolly
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature... view
By: Cyril Connolly
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures.. view
By: Joseph Conrad
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness... view
By: Joseph Conrad
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution... view
By: Scott Cook
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort... view
By: Mason Cooley
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage... view
By: Mason Cooley
Other authors in the same category
- Aristotle
- Marquis de Sade
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Blaise Pascal
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Henry David Thoreau
- Marcus Aurelius
- Pierre Rabhi
- Xun Zi
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander Pope
- Voltaire
- Paul Cezanne
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Bodhidharma
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Joseph Addison
- Alexandre Dumas
- olympe-de-gouges
- George Sand
- Victor Hugo
- Joseph Butler
- Plato
- Baruch Spinoza
- Honore de Balzac
- Francis Bacon
- William Shakespeare
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Robert Delaunay
- Ibn Khaldun
- William Hazlitt
- Charles Baudelaire
- Auguste Rodin
- Michael Pollan
- Richard Le Gallienne