Nature Quotes

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

To 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.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.