977 private quotes tagged nature

“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.” — H. P. Blavatsky

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“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.” — Neil Young

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“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

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“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” — Joyce Kilmer

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“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” — Thomas Huxley

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“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.” — John Keats

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“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.” — John Keats

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“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.” — Henry Miller

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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.” — David Seabury

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“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.” — Miriam Makeba

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“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” — Coco Chanel

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“I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.” — Clyde Tombaugh

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“Your nature is the Buddha.” — Bodhidharma

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“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.” — Joan Jett

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“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.” — Salvador Dali

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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.” — Jane Austen

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“It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.” — Titus Livius

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“I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.” — Richard Russo

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“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.” — Clarence Day

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