977 private quotes tagged nature

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“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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“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“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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“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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“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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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” — Alfred Tennyson

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

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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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“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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“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.” — Edmund Burke

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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.” — John Muir

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“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir

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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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“We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.” — Aristotle

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