977 private quotes tagged nature

“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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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” — Leo Tolstoy

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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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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” — Max Planck

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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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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.” — Richard Dawkins

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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.” — Lord Byron

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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 cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.” — Napoleon Hill

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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.” — Anatole France

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.” — Alexander Pope

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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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“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” — Mason Cooley

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“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” — Albert Einstein

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“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“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.” — Aristotle

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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

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