Nature

Quote link. Other quotes about: men society law born Other quotes by Charles de Montesquieu.: "In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong hours earth death day think time light today food Other quotes by Jeff Melvoin.: "You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk happiness think little life forget Other quotes by Jeff Melvoin.: "Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short."
Quote link. Other quotes by Elisha Potter.: "Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art human men Other quotes by Henry G. Stott.: "Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science man Other quotes by William A. Smith.: "Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people purpose person Other quotes by James Thurber.: "The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."
Quote link. Other quotes by Isaac Asimov.: "Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe god Other quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright.: "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech understand democracy rest country Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe law Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature"
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy world little life purpose making Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life living Other quotes by Zeno.: "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world light mind Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech human world mind Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time pain child Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A man is related to all nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person born Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Adopt the pace of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good mind heaven Other quotes by Washington Irving.: "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rich Other quotes by Socrates.: "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life."
Quote link. Other quotes by Confucius.: "Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Confucius.: "By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human hate Other quotes by Tacitus.: "It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need wisdom Other quotes by John Milton.: "Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: children peace war child Other quotes by Herodotus.: "In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children."
Quote link. Other quotes by Woody Allen.: "I am at two with nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Sydney Smith.: "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing little child fact Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance small world never game law rule Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: perfect Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship money friend life friends Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aristotle.: "Man is by nature a political animal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason human Other quotes by Aristotle.: "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Aristotle.: "All men by nature desire knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something Other quotes by Aristotle.: "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mankind Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art find happy nothing little life discover Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: game mind walk Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power change law Other quotes by Edmund Burke.: "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes by Edmund Burke.: "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Horace.: "Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "All art is but imitation of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science power world man change Other quotes by B. F. Skinner.: "Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world nothing living dead creative Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."
Quote link. Other quotes about: greed Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus"
Quote link. Other quotes about: live world never rich Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe men person women Other quotes by W. Somerset Maugham.: "The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by Seneca.: "All art is an imitation of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason live man Other quotes by Seneca.: "What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art grow Other quotes by Ovid.: "By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never life soul Other quotes by Seneca.: "To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul Other quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson.: "Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech love words Other quotes by Ingrid Bergman.: "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend Other quotes by Cyril Connolly.: "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find work man life look Other quotes by William Hazlitt.: "First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily."
Quote link. Other quotes about: compassion prison experience human something time beauty living person rest Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life respect love hard Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science hope art world men life pain person Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work man understand creative Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother friend Other quotes by Legouve.: "A brother is a friend given by Nature."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Santayana.: "... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: women love Other quotes by Miguel de Cervantes.: "That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad good pain Other quotes by Miguel de Cervantes.: "I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human truth love Other quotes by George Santayana.: "In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral."
Quote link. Other quotes about: moon perfect soul Other quotes by Akhenaton.: "As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool."
Quote link. Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.: "Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason happiness life Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.: "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death look Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.: "Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills."
Quote link. Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.: "Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.: "No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms."
Quote link. Other quotes by Athenus.: "Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books power art man book father value Other quotes by Pietro Aretino.: "Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing change Other quotes by Marcus Aelius Aurelius.: "Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason happiness life Other quotes by Marcus Aelius Aurelius.: "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power find something think past rest service forget Other quotes by Jane Austen.: "If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong find happiness human first little Other quotes by Jane Austen.: "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe people Other quotes by James A. Autry.: "I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art god man Other quotes by Philip James Bailey.: "Art is a man's nature nature is God's art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old human man respect living wise grow hard Other quotes by Luther Bear.: "The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer.: "What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing person change law Other quotes by H Hahn Blavatsky.: "Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.: "It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand Other quotes by Jacob Brownowski.: "Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god men rest service law Other quotes by John Calvin.: "The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth good children peace love child teach Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr..: "It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book words fact Other quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.: "The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
Quote link. Other quotes by Charles Churchill.: "It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men heaven Other quotes by I Ching.: "Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human never government society Other quotes by Henry Clay.: "All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises."
Quote link. Other quotes about: society Other quotes by George Crabbe.: "Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life child Other quotes by Marie Curie.: "All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science ignorance world time country Other quotes by Humphrey Davy.: "Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin law Other quotes by Charles Robert Darwin.: "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Democritus.: "More men have become great through practice than by nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason creative Other quotes by Denis Diderot.: "Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fact Other quotes by Denis Diderot.: "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small believe world born Other quotes by Annie Dillard.: "It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mental die live world men Other quotes by Macneile Dixon.: "Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rest Other quotes by William Sherman Pene du Bois.: "The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature."
Quote link. Other quotes by Philip Jose Farmer.: "Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america Other quotes by Waldo Frank.: "We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset.: "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people discover Other quotes by Shakti Gawain.: "We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
Quote link. Other quotes by Bhagavad Gita.: "Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power beauty Other quotes by Stephen Jay Gould.: "The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience lost bad old human friend something good deep wife Other quotes by Jeffrey Vlaming.: "CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience"
Quote link. Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary"
Quote link. Other quotes about: power nothing Other quotes by William Henry Harrison.: "There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."
Quote link. Other quotes by Napolean Hill.: "Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science experience world time never society born Other quotes by Dee W. Hock.: "We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness life Other quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt.: "I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human discover Other quotes by David Hume.: "History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man clothes Other quotes by David Hume.: "Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man."
Quote link. Other quotes by Robert Hutchins.: "Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power people sin Other quotes by Henrik Ibsen.: "Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe god people man Other quotes by William Ralph Inge.: "Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man."
Quote link. Other quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll.: "In nature there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences."
Quote link. Other quotes about: law Other quotes by Paul Jones.: "It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human history man purpose mankind perfect Other quotes by Immanuel Kant.: "The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man rule Other quotes by Nikita Khrushchev.: "Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live world purpose beauty love past future forget Other quotes by Dean Koontz.: "Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past."
Quote link. Other quotes by Titus Livius.: "Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think answer Other quotes by Phillip Lubin.: "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god life living good Other quotes by Martin Luther.: "Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience small human mother children important need courage child soul Other quotes by Phyllis Mcginley.: "God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ lost believe god something dead love sin rich Other quotes by Mark McGee.: "We were lost and dead in sin. We were by nature objects of God's wrath. But God Loved us That Love caused Him to do something about our situation. God is rich in mercy, so He made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. God acted on His Love for us and saved us by His Grace Grace is the result of the actions of His Love. The remarkable thing about His Grace is that He didn't ask us to do anything but believe Him. God didn't ask us to perform some great deed. He didn't demand obedience from us before He would save us. God made us alive with Christ 'even when we were dead in transgressions and sins.' God is showing the universe 'the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.' (Ephesians 27) God was Kind to us 'in' Christ because He Loved us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by Alfred A. Montapert.: "The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Berthe Morisot.: "The love of nature is consolation against failure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth naked Other quotes by Alfred Bernhard Nobel.: "Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something Other quotes by Peggy Noonan.: "Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen."
Quote link. Other quotes by Belgian Proverb.: "Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art reason pain sin single Other quotes by Auguste Renoir.: "In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work nothing pain look Other quotes by Auguste Renoir.: "If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think success Other quotes by John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr..: "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Franois Auguste Ren Rodin.: "Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art never Other quotes by Franois Auguste Ren Rodin.: "To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by William Rotsler.: "You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right human man Other quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau.: "To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: look Other quotes by John Ruskin.: "It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: peace Other quotes by John Ruskin.: "This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life wisdom Other quotes by Dr. Jonas Salk.: "Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth right friend living love friends soul Other quotes by Ripley D. Saunders.: "Life's simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature's sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with right living blends -- home's dear content, so cheap that all may buy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience life wisdom Other quotes by Samuel Smiles.: "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books experience small life book wisdom Other quotes by Samuel Smiles.: "The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human pain worse words Other quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.: "You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little Other quotes by Edmund Spenser.: "A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power world men man evil soul Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson.: "Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life music Other quotes by Lewis Thomas.: "We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never answer words Other quotes by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev.: "However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think people past discover mind Other quotes by Unknown.: "Nothing can be called failure until you accept it as such. You can transmute all past failures and mistakes into assets. Adversity is Nature's method of disciplining people to learn to take possession of their own minds. Greatest blessings often come from the greatest adversities. Study yourself carefully and you may discover that your own emotions are your greatest handicap in the business of accurate thinking."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art work old people young Other quotes by Unknown.: "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: teach Other quotes by Unknown.: "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
Quote link. Other quotes about: law Other quotes by Marquis de Vauvenargues.: "It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence."
Quote link. Other quotes by Maitri Upanishads.: "Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power god teach Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good Other quotes by Ni'matullah Wali.: "The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art little war music Other quotes by Izaak Walton.: "Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time man respect future Other quotes by E. B. White.: "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
Quote link. Other quotes by H. G. Wells.: "Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art right think man life artists teach born Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.: "The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience Other quotes by Benjamin Lee Whorf.: "We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical old understand fact Other quotes by Eugene Paul Wigner.: "Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."
Quote link. Other quotes by Tennessee Williams.: "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day Other quotes by George E. Woodbury.: "Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science human Other quotes by Bill Wulf.: "There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work Other quotes by Anonymous.: "Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little time mother living Other quotes by David Assael.: "Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty man Other quotes by Hugh Blair.: "True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by L. M. K. Boelter.: "Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically."
Quote link. Other quotes by George W. Bush.: "You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature."
Quote link. Other quotes by Cicero.: "I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong man evil Other quotes by Cicero.: "The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Cicero.: "The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: born Other quotes by Cicero.: "Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason right men man good wise law Other quotes by Victor Cousin.: "All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods."
Quote link. Other quotes about: technology success Other quotes by Richard Feynman.: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by Hugh Elliott.: "When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time people mother seed Other quotes by Robin Green.: "Spring has sprung. We're free at last, people. Free at last. Thank you mother nature, we're free. Time to toss open that metaphysical window and check out that psychic landscape. See lots of possibilities budding out there. Time to hoe those rows, feed that seed. Pretty soon you get a garden."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life past sin Other quotes by Robin Green.: "Dr. Joel Fleischman in nature. Not exactly the man you knew. He couldn't see past the Hudson River if he tried. He liked his fish smoked or preferable hand sliced from Zabars on a sliced bagel served with onions. Nature, to him, was an irritant. Birds didn't sing, they woke him up. A body of water wasn't life, it was a golf hazard.."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical work human man good law Other quotes by R. E. Hellmund.: "Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something think world people cook mind child grow Other quotes by Barbara Hall.: "It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk need Other quotes by Robin Green.: "The Eagle wasn't always the Eagle. The Eagle, before he became the Eagle, was Yucatangee, the Talker. Yucatangee talked and talked. It talked so much it heard only itself. Not the river, not the wind, not even the Wolf. The Raven came and said The Wolf is hungry. If you stop talking, you'll hear him. The wind too. And when you hear the wind, you'll fly. So he stopped talking. And became its nature, the Eagle. The Eagle soared, and its flight said all it needed to say."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america Other quotes by John F. Kennedy.: "The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mankind law Other quotes by S. E. Lindsay.: "Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong first Other quotes by Hal Lancaster.: "Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place."
Quote link. Other quotes by Licretius.: "There is no place in nature for extinction."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man love music deep society Other quotes by George Gordon Byron.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human deep Other quotes by William James.: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live men Other quotes by Aristotle.: "It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: living Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Charles Dickens.: "Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: education Other quotes by Smiley Blanton.: "A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art pain soul Other quotes by Henry Ward Beecher.: "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man success Other quotes by Henry Ward Beecher.: "To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god world man good wise wisdom Other quotes by Pierre Charron.: "The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books human book Other quotes by Henry Ward Beecher.: "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore"
Quote link. Other quotes about: art find man Other quotes by Kahlil Gibran.: "Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find world rest sin single Other quotes by John Muir.: "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun good peace Other quotes by John Muir.: "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Muir.: "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human pain Other quotes by Walter Bagehot.: "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
Quote link. Other quotes by Henry Kissinger.: "It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human living today Other quotes by Dale Carnegie.: "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find day need future fact Other quotes by Lao Tzu.: "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man need wisdom look Other quotes by Lao Tzu.: "Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith.: "The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: evil Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship happiness friend first friends Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: father Other quotes by French Proverb.: "A father is a banker provided by nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find god friend sun silence moon need rest soul Other quotes by Mother Theresa.: "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance sin mind grow Other quotes by William Ellery Channing.: "Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: change law Other quotes by Robert Burns.: "Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad find men law Other quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli.: "Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by Honore' de Balzac.: "What is art Nature concentrated."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human god freedom Other quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee.: "As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing never Other quotes by Leonardo DaVinci.: "Human subtelty 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time country Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground."
Quote link. Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human man Other quotes by Erich Fromm.: "The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life perfect Other quotes by Oscar Wilde.: "The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend success Other quotes by Oscar Wilde.: "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man life Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN"
Quote link. Other quotes about: world time sun house peace war love fear change summer deep look soul Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human fear Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth happy world little men house war Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
Quote link. Other quotes about: child words look Other quotes by Sir Philip Sidney.: "But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science work old human discover fact Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time man understand Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
Quote link. Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "We cannot command nature except by obeying her."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man change Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand fact Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world understand discover deep look Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost power government society wish fact Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton.: "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man run law Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right old human never man sun mankind Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton.: "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain important Other quotes by Vincent Van Gogh.: "It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art understand love Other quotes by Vincent Van Gogh.: "Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people life dead Other quotes by Aldous Huxley.: "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fear run Other quotes by Hellen Keller.: "Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience nothing men children run child Other quotes by Hellen Keller.: "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power world Other quotes by William Wordsworth.: "The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon"
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing life Other quotes by Hellen Keller.: "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work human day first man life pain fear child soul Other quotes by William Wordsworth.: "Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human think wise Other quotes by Anatole France.: "It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Updike.: "Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth never Other quotes by Plato.: "Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy hard Other quotes by Plato.: "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think life person important need making deep Other quotes by Sigmund Freud.: "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good love grow look soul Other quotes by Joan Borysenko.: "Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by Voltaire.: "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness lies Other quotes by Albert Camus.: "I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think people sin Other quotes by Albert Camus.: "It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human something think life Other quotes by Stephen Hawking.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth Other quotes by Thomas Paine.: "Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human man children child Other quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero.: "Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children"
Quote link. Other quotes by Robert G. Ingersoll.: "There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small human sin Other quotes by Galileo Galilei.: "It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve"
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience man life Other quotes by Ralph W. Sockman.: "Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness human little life mind Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."

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