977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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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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“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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“Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.” — Wallace Stevens

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“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.” — Antonio Porchia

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“It's just a part of our nature to hope.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” — Wendell Berry

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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“I like my home and I like the nature.” — Billy Corgan

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“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.” — John Dewey

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“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.” — Hannah Arendt

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“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.” — Noam Chomsky

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“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.” — Octavio Paz

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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” — Wilhelm von Humboldt

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“And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.” — Adam Weishaupt

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“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.” — Dennis Prager

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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.” — William Cowper

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“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.” — Herbert Spencer

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