977 private quotes tagged nature

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.” — Fran Lebowitz

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“We must return to nature and nature's god.” — Luther Burbank

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

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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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“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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“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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