977 private quotes tagged nature

“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.” — Havelock Ellis

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“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.” — Honore de Balzac

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“But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.” — David Millar

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“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.” — Charles Dickens

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“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.” — John Donne

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“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.” — Steve Lacy

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“Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.” — Orson Welles

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“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.” — Billy Corgan

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“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.” — William Wordsworth

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“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” — George Byron

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“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.” — Zhuangzi

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“I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.” — Robert Fulghum

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“Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.” — Ovid

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“Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.” — Mary Webb

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“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.” — Standing Bear

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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” — Benjamin Britten

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“I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.” — Sidney Sheldon

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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” — Richard Bach

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“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” — William Hazlitt

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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” — Langston Hughes

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“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.” — Joseph Addison

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