Nature Quotes (1673)
nature quotes in english
Nature does nothing in vain... view
By: Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars... view
By: Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way... view
By: Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous... view
By: Aristotle
It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles... view
By: Karen Armstrong
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream... view
By: Neil Armstrong
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular... view
By: Rudolf Arnheim
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency... view
By: Rudolf Arnheim
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away... view
By: Matthew Arnold
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch... view
By: Tom Arnold
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed... view
By: John Ashcroft
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult... view
By: Isaac Asimov
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature... view
By: Margot Asquith
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature... view
By: Julian Assange
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible.. view
By: Mary Astell
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything... view
By: Lee Atwater
Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'.. view
By: W. H. Auden
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature... view
By: John James Audubon
Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks... view
By: John James Audubon
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature... view
By: Saint Augustine
Custom is second nature... view
By: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time... view
By: Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature... view
By: Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight... view
By: Marcus Aurelius
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear... view
By: Marcus Aurelius
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them... view
By: Marcus Aurelius
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature... view
By: Marcus Aurelius
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else... view
By: Marcus Aurelius
Hidden nature is secret God... view
By: Sri Aurobindo
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of... view
By: Jane Austen
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life... view
By: Jane Austen
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul... view
By: Alfred Austin
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder... view
By: Alfred Austin
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms... view
By: Milton Avery
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them... view
By: Sai Baba
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God... view
By: Sai Baba
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line... view
By: Ibrahim Babangida
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked... view
By: Thomas Babington
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed... view
By: Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out... view
By: Francis Bacon
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