977 private quotes tagged nature

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?” — Blaise Pascal

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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” — Blaise Pascal

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“All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.” — Sophocles

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

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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” — Mason Cooley

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“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” — Ansel Adams

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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” — Aristotle

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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.” — Aristotle

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“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.” — Aristotle

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“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.” — Edouard Manet

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“We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” — Edward Abbey

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

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“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.” — Franz Kafka

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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.” — Albert Einstein

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