977 private quotes tagged nature

“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'” — W. H. Auden

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“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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“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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

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“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.” — Calvin Coolidge

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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'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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“There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.” — Auguste Rodin

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“Your nature is the Buddha.” — Bodhidharma

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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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“People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.” — Henry Cantwell Wallace

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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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“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.” — Marcel Proust

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“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.” — Walter Lippmann

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