1,011 Quotes Regarding Nature


Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin Disraeli

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean

Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy

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