Nature Quotes

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.