1,011 Quotes Regarding Nature


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

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

Gossip is nature's telephone.
Sholom Aleichem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
Marquis de Sade

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
David Millar