977 private quotes tagged nature

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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.”— Richard Dawkins
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“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”— Edmund Burke
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“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”— Anatole France
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“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”— Blaise Pascal
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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”— Victor Hugo
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“For greed all nature is too little.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Human nature is not of itself vicious.”— Thomas Paine
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“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”— Francis Bacon
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“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”— Victor Hugo
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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.”— Samuel Butler
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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”— Niels Bohr
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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”— Victor Hugo
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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Water is the driving force of all nature.”— Leonardo da Vinci