All 78,476 Quotes


There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Joseph Addison on nature

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison on nature

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison on nature

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates on nature

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas on nature

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
Jack LaLanne on nature

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer on nature

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr on nature

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
Gary Chapman on nature

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
William Hazlitt on nature

Gossip is nature's telephone.
Sholom Aleichem on nature

Man 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. Wells on nature

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana on nature

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee on nature

To 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 Addison on nature

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison on nature

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Marquis de Sade on nature

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler on nature

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
William Hazlitt on nature

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William Hazlitt on nature