Nature Quotes (1673)
nature quotes in english
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why.. view
By: Chauncey Wright
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life... view
By: Chauncey Wright
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you... view
By: Frances Wright
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us... view
By: Francis Wright
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against... view
By: Francis Wright
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see... view
By: Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature... view
By: Frank Lloyd Wright
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you... view
By: Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain... view
By: Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers... view
By: Robert Wyatt
I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad... view
By: Andrew Wyeth
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life... view
By: Minoru Yamasaki
Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation... view
By: Boris Yeltsin
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere... view
By: Brigham Young
We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing... view
By: Don Young
The course of Nature is the art of God... view
By: Edward Young
Read nature.. view
By: Edward Young
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature... view
By: Neil Young
One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it... view
By: Jason Zebehazy
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets... view
By: Pieter Zeeman
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature... view
By: Zhuangzi
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that... view
By: Xun Zi
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal... view
By: Xun Zi
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature... view
By: Xun Zi
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled... view
By: Xun Zi
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving... view
By: Xun Zi
Human nature is what Heaven supplies... view
By: Xun Zi
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die... view
By: Xun Zi
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity... view
By: Xun Zi
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles... view
By: Xun Zi
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?.. view
By: Philip Zimbardo
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans... view
By: Mortimer Zuckerman
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature... view
By: Daphne Zuniga
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- Aristotle
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- 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