The truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma GandhiWhen you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
John LennonDreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John UpdikeThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane AustenThe family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George SantayanaMan can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma GandhiA painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Leonardo da VinciAll men by nature desire to know.
AristotleSecurity is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen KellerWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinWe have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.
Mahatma GandhiNo man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
PlatoStupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave FlaubertOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareI believe that sex is one of the most beautiful natural wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve MartinThere is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander HamiltonMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph AddisonA politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. HumphreyWhat 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.
VoltaireJoy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert EinsteinWhen I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma GandhiHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleyIn general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin FranklinSex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn MonroeNature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery girl should use what Mother Nature gave her, before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. PeterIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.
AristotleI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift, as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis StevensonArt not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.
AristotleA man's kiss is his signature.
Mae WestHuman nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane AustenThe ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
William ShatnerBehold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil GibranThey are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane AustenMen's natures are alike, it is their habits that separate them.
ConfuciusA gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William HazlittBy nature men are nearly alike, by practice they get to be wide apart.
ConfuciusIf a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David ThoreauNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis BaconA kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid BergmanHuman 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 VinciMan's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma GandhiAmericans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Stephen KingMountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel HawthorneComplex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple statistically probable things.
Richard DawkinsA peace is of the nature of a conquest, for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.
William ShakespeareEarth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John LubbockIt always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Dave BarryNature can be modified by nurture, even dogs can cease to relish meat when they are trained to relish only vegetarian food.
Sai BabaWe 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.
Mother TeresaI owned the world that hour, as I rode over it. Free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
Charles LindberghThere is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John KeatsHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinAs 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 ByronAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDesire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast.
Sai BabaNow I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt WhitmanLoss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus AureliusTo me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen KellerEverything 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.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan WattsI say that habit is but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
AristotleNature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin DisraeliSo it is naturally with the male and the female, the one is superior the other inferior, the one governs the other is governed, and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
AristotleMany secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis BaconThe savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric HofferA man's nature runs either to herbs or to weeds, therefore let him seasonably water the one and destroy the other.
Francis BaconNature has no mercy at all. Nature says "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
Maya AngelouVirtue is the strong stem of man's nature and music is the blossoming of virtue.
ConfuciusIf you're not a tree hugger then you're, a what, a tree hater?
Doug CouplandWhat are men to rocks and mountains?
Jane AustenBut I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan WattsMoney has never made man happy nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.
Benjamin FranklinIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
AristotleUs sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice WalkerEverything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
Paulo CoelhoMiracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint AugustineForests, lakes and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett MardenNature has always had more force than education.
VoltaireI'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers the sky.
Audrey HepburnIt is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
BuddhaNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere 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...
Jane AustenMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. LewisRest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John LubbockGood nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance, which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph AddisonMen have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true and usually do arrive at the truth.
AristotleMan is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul SartreOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert EinsteinMusic produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
ConfuciusAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleThe search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
AristotleNature does nothing uselessly.
AristotleNature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood bones and hair.
Doug CouplandAs in nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place so virtue in ambition is violent in authority settled and calm.
Francis BaconWhat is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de BalzacBut Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect and Nature ever seeks an end.
AristotleNature gives you the face you have at twenty, it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco ChanelThe beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
AristotleNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude SteinRace hate isn't human nature, race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson WellesOh nature's noblest gift my grey goose quill Slave of my thoughts obedient to my will Torn from the parent bird to form a pen That mighty instrument of little men
Lord ByronI have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature, and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.
William BlakePainting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul CezanneIf you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran LebowitzTo be happy we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
William HazlittNature is perfect.
William ShatnerNature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John BurroughsIt is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels BohrAll is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
SophoclesEngland has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. ForsterThe pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning it far surpasseth all other in nature
Francis BaconIdeas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de BalzacThe deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important"
John DeweyNature is relentless and unchangeable and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo GalileiThere are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen HawkingI'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
Christina AguileraAll 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.
PlatoIt is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
Deepak ChopraIn nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.
Alice WalkerWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James MadisonIn nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
Robert Green IngersollMarried love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
AeschylusThus happiness depends as nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.
William CowperGravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave BarryYou may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Joel OsteenSighing that Nature formed but one such man and broke the die.
Lord ByronThere are a lot of conservative people a lot of moderate people Republicans Democrats in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
Clint EastwoodWe cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis BaconMother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the "patty" group which includes hamburgers fish sticks and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.
Dave BarryWe trifle when we assign limits to our desires since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell BoveeNature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WilsonTo 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.
PlatoStudies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis BaconNature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond and the lover makes the woman.
Victor HugoIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauNature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell HolmesTrue happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise
Joseph AddisonBut such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineWe must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Paul CezanneA perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
Joseph AddisonIf you don't know how to die don't worry, Nature will tell you what to do on the spot fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you, don't bother your head about it.
Michel de MontaigneThe mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold NiebuhrWater is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da VinciI thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing so quiet and peaceful. I mean there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
Tiger WoodsNature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David ThoreauBy reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure a cooler blue the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas MertonNature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise PascalCertainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers as they will set an house on fire and it were but to roast their eggs.
Francis BaconI have no hostility to nature but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou must not be a bit of blotting paper absorbing all the passions and emotions all the joys and grief that the actress of Nature demonstrates of the stages of life.
Sai BabaWe are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
VoltaireMr. Collins was not a sensible man and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society.
Jane AustenWe need a government alas because of the nature of humans.
P. J. O'RourkeThose 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.
ZhuangziObserve constantly that all things take place by change and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusFor 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.
Francis BaconCovetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves and the last which dies.
Michel de MontaigneThen not only custom but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice and that justice is equality.
PlatoAnd although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan WattsOur founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Paul RyanYou 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 KafkaIf the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.
Charles DarwinHuman values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance he will experience his divine nature.
Sai BabaThe style of God venerated in the church, mosque or synagogue, seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan WattsIt is better to do one's own duty however defective it may be than to follow the duty of another however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it never sins.
Lao TzuI lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul CezanneThe psychical whatever its nature may be is itself unconscious.
Sigmund FreudNature 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 RochefoucauldI think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Henry RollinsNature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da VinciWe are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is the nature of desire not to be satisfied and most men live only for the gratification of it.
AristotleMan has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Henry MillerReally I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia WoolfOur natures are a lot like oil mix us with anything else and we strive to swim on top.
Joan RiversMan today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.
Sai BabaIn the Spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark TwainPerhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor RooseveltThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre GideSubdue your appetites my dears and you've conquered human nature.
Charles DickensIt is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
AristotleBecoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.
Drew BarrymoreTo be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things, this is the nature of righteousness
ConfuciusOne of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo TolstoyDeath like birth is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel HawthorneNature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander PopePlace where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed, one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self. He returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.
ConfuciusThe world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
William BlakeYou have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Orison Swett MardenIt is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
AristotleNature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles DarwinThe 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.
Marcus AureliusThe 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.
Thomas HuxleyA 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 your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas JeffersonIt is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and given the opportunity women work iniquity.
BuddhaNature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe learned is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more.
Alexander PopeThe human understanding from its peculiar nature easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds
Francis BaconMy Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
Francis BaconWhen nature has work to be done she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
Thomas HuxleyThey are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis BaconIt is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf