977 private quotes tagged nature

“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.” — Francis Bacon

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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.” — Julius Caesar

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“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Human nature is not of itself vicious.” — Thomas Paine

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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” — Max Planck

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“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.” — Victor Hugo

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“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“For greed all nature is too little.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” — Victor Hugo

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“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” — Samuel Butler

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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire

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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.” — Niels Bohr

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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” — Victor Hugo

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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.” — Lord Byron

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