Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel HawthorneArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul CezanneOur character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNature more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals especially in the more thoughtful men which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
Desiderius ErasmusPlace 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.
ConfuciusMy nature just changes.
Jimi HendrixThe 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 BlakeAnd out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature moulding men.
Alfred Lord TennysonIt 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.
AristotleAn architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress and what by a dome.
John RuskinWere I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan PoeWhat 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 AureliusPoetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.
William HazlittWhat is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole the keyhole of nature trying to know what's going on.
Jacques Yves CousteauA 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.
BuddhaMutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature
Joseph AddisonThe learned is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more.
Alexander PopeOur soul is cast into a body where it finds number time dimension. Thereupon it reasons and calls this nature necessity and can believe nothing else.
Blaise PascalIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeNature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de BalzacTo become an able and successful man in any profession three things are necessary nature study and practice.
Henry Ward BeecherI think I have a dualistic nature.
Bob DylanMy aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward HopperIt is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
ConfuciusWhere man is not nature is barren.
William BlakeArt is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich NietzscheYou can't just let nature run wild.
Walt DisneyIf 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 BaconIn truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality either today or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry even if all mankind joins in that effort.
Sai BabaThe 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.
Erich FrommGreat men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
AristotleHuman society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Mason CooleyThe function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren KierkegaardIf any human being earnestly desires 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 know
Francis BaconThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMan's true nature being lost everything becomes his nature, as his true good being lost everything becomes his good.
Blaise PascalSlave to no sect who takes no private road But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander PopeMan is the unnatural animal the rebel child of nature and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. WellsAs a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor HugoRevenge is a kind of wild justice which the more a man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis BaconPoetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars.
AristotleRetaliation is related to nature and instinct not to law. Law by definition cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert CamusThe fairest thing in nature a flower still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert LawrenceLook when you're the president there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean it's just the nature of the job.
George W. BushDespise not death but welcome it for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus AureliusThe salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth GalbraithMen are by nature merely indifferent to one another, but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur SchopenhauerFor greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotlePsychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Mason CooleyHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel JohnsonNature to be commanded must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is.
Francis BaconIf the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another then I say break the law.
Henry David ThoreauNature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow, in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels they rise they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
William BlakeThe human understanding is like a false mirror which receiving rays irregularly distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it
Francis BaconSmall natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de BalzacThere is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise
Francis BaconIt is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious, he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher MorleyThe truth is in nature and I shall prove it.
Paul CezanneLove is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
VoltaireThe art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VoltaireAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeOne 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 that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale CarnegieTo insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature "human" might be the greater insult.
Isaac AsimovSit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.
Thomas HuxleyI have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel JohnsonNature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own, and from morning to night as from the cradle to the grave it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles DickensWhen we think of the major threats to our national security the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores one from nature not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack ObamaIs any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
Marcus AureliusThose things that nature denied to human sight she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
OvidTears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell BoveeNature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Frank Lloyd WrightNatural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
George W. BushAll art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David ThoreauThe moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
AristotleArt is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being the former has made us men.
Friedrich SchillerThe duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things namely not to follow it but to amend it.
John Stuart MillNo form of Nature is inferior to Art, for the arts merely imitate natural forms
Marcus AureliusAs regards the individual nature woman is defective and misbegotten for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex, while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas AquinasIt is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl MarxTo conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles DickensAlways observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature and end thy journey in content just as an olive falls off when it is ripe blessing nature who produced it and thanking the tree on which it grew.
Marcus AureliusBy nature all men are equal in liberty but not in other endowments.
Thomas AquinasGod and Nature first made us what we are and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus GarveyDear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble, in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor HugoThe perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
William HazlittAlthough nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da VinciIt is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.
EpictetusEvery action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
AristotleI believe in God only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd WrightI love not man the less but Nature more.
Lord ByronExtremes in nature equal ends produce, In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander PopeMen speak of natural rights but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Calvin CoolidgeTwo things control men's nature instinct and experience.
Blaise PascalI do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything even nature.
John D. RockefellerThe machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyMan seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai BabaTime is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody AllenMan was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric HofferConsistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous HuxleyOf all the wonders of nature a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable, with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.
Woody AllenThere is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Joseph AddisonNature is trying very hard to make us succeed but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster FullerWhen Sir Joshua Reynolds died / All Nature was degraded, / The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear / And all his pictures faded.
William BlakeScenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John KeatsDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them he opens the way for his successors.
Paul CezanneTo be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.
Joseph AddisonThe stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.
Joseph AddisonWhat is human warfare but just this, an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David ThoreauExternal nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami VivekanandaClimate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark TwainIn all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George EliotYou have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.
Sai BabaTo be ambitious of true honor of the true glory and perfection of our natures is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter ScottI am at two with nature
Woody AllenCustom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise PascalThere is but one law for all namely that law which governs all law the law of our Creator the law of humanity justice equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund BurkeMen have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature, and the error is ineradicable.
W. Somerset MaughamWhen nature exceeds culture we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
ConfuciusEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward BeecherWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus AureliusI am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob DylanNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.
Lao TzuIn our nature however there is a provision alike marvelous and merciful that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel HawthornePoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur SchopenhauerBut while they prate of economic laws men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. RooseveltOur treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich NietzscheA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is wont to hide herself.
HeraclitusNature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel JohnsonAs I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs thinking that, as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.
William BlakeHabit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel ProustThe deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William JamesThere are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David ThoreauNo speech can stain what is noble by nature.
SophoclesNothing is evil which is according to nature.
Marcus AureliusBorrow trouble for yourself if that's your nature but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard KiplingIt is a secret both in nature and state that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis BaconA man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal or it may be a worldly object according to his nature at the time being, but whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty and should devote himself to its attainment not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies longings and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.
James AllenHuman nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas PaineThe sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John RuskinHe is richest who is content with the least for content is the wealth of nature.
SocratesReason is a supple nymph and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
David Herbert LawrenceThe method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.
Alexander PopeNature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is full of genius full of the divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David ThoreauThe humblest painter is a true scholar, and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William HazlittMan 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.
Francis BaconPainting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Edward HopperWhat nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis SingerNature is by and large to be found out of doors a location where it cannot be argued there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Fran LebowitzStudy nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd WrightIt is the nature of every person to error but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David ThoreauThere will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
Edward HopperNature is commanded by obeying her.
Francis BaconNature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William CowperIt is the nature of truth in general as of some ores in particular to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan PoeIt was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. KissingerHabit if wisely and skillfully formed becomes truly a second nature, but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted it will be as it were an ape of nature which imitates nothing to the life but only clumsily and awkwardly
Francis BaconThe 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.
Alexander HamiltonHabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion and desire.
AristotleYou may drive out nature with a pitchfork yet she'll be constantly running back.
HoraceLove is a portion of the soul itself and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor HugoNature that framed us of four elements warring within our breasts for regiment doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo MachiavelliSuffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur SchopenhauerCreativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric HofferNature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David ThoreauIf the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Edward HopperWe are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle sir is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant the active the brave.
Patrick HenryNothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
Marcus AureliusNature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn the modern world youth should know the nature of true love. Many from abroad mix with persons of the opposite sex calling them boy friend and girl friend. If you really love each other you must get married and not continue living as friends.
Sai BabaArgumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.
Francis BaconWe must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. RooseveltVirtue is a habit of the mind consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo understand the nature of the people one must be a prince and to understand the nature of the prince one must be of the people.
Niccolo MachiavelliAccording to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhat nature requires is obtainable and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFor in the true nature of things if we rightly consider every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin LutherNature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon HillWe see God face to face every hour and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA God without dominion, providence and final causes is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander PopeI was trying to do too many things at the same time which is my nature. But I was enjoying it and I still do enjoy it.
Jimi HendrixI go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.
John BurroughsTime destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOur ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan DoyleFood conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.
Sai BabaGood nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward BeecherI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen HawkingIf we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves CousteauNature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.
Francis BaconMan is but a reed the most feeble thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise PascalReading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington CarverEverything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.
AristotleNothing in nature is evil.
Marcus AureliusPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct everything in nature is coloured.
Paul CezanneWords like nature half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord TennysonThere is not in my opinion anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals which thus rise above reason and yet fall infinitely short of it
Joseph AddisonHuman nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret MeadFor an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject but to realize sensations.
Paul CezanneAll cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt DisneyNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature whether sacred or profane out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius ErasmusCall it Nature Fate Fortune, all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaProbably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore RooseveltIn nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place
Francis Bacon