Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? Blaise Pascal on nature
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Samuel Butler on nature
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke on nature
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. William Wordsworth on nature
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. Aleister Crowley on nature
The 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 Galbraith on nature
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. Charles Dickens on nature
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies. Arthur Schopenhauer on nature
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. Pierre Corneille on nature
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero on nature
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero on nature
Our 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 Pascal on nature
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. Bernard Meltzer on nature
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Marcus Tullius Cicero on nature
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero on nature
Our 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 Cicero on nature
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on nature
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. Richard Dawkins on nature
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. John Paul Jones on nature