Nature Quotes

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. (Aristotle)
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
All men by nature desire to know. View quote
Aristotle
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. View quote
Epictetus
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. View quote
Hippocrates
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. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
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. View quote
Stephen Hawking
All art is an imitation of nature. View quote
Seneca
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. View quote
Xun Zi
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. (John Updike)
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. View quote
William James
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. View quote
Anatole France
Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! View quote
Alexander Pope
The imagination is one of the forces of nature. (Wallace Stevens)
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. View quote
William Howard Taft
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke