977 private quotes tagged nature

“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.” — Thomas Paine

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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking

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“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.” — Plato

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“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.” — Woody Allen

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“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Man is by nature a political animal.” — Aristotle

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“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.” — Thor Heyerdahl

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“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.” — George Eliot

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” — Plato

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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” — Winston Churchill

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“The Amen of nature is always a flower.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.” — William Hazlitt

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“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.” — John Mayer

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“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” — E. E. Cummings

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“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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