Nature Quotes - page 2

The painter strives and competes with nature. (Leonardo da Vinci)
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. View quote
Voltaire
Nature is wont to hide herself. View quote
Heraclitus
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
Aristotle
A love of nature is a consolation against failure. View quote
Berthe Morisot
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. View quote
James Thurber
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. View quote
Neil Armstrong
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. (Edmund Burke)
Were 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.' View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
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. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. View quote
Edward Witten
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. View quote
Laurence Sterne
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 that are blooming outside our windows today. View quote
Dale Carnegie
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. View quote
Thomas Browne
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. (James Clavell)
Nature is never finished. View quote
Robert Smithson
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. View quote
Leon Trotsky
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. View quote
E. B. White
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer