Nature Has Given Quotes

22 quotes by 16 authors

• Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. — Benjamin Disraeli
• There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has… — Samuel Johnson
• If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the… — Thomas Jefferson
• War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be… — Thomas Jefferson
• Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts. — Claudius Claudianus
• You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of… — Marcus Aurelius
• I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it. — Claudius Claudianus
• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every… — Marcus Aurelius
• I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in… — Socrates
• A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even… — James Anthony Froude
• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. — Samuel Johnson
• Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much,… — Jane Austen
• Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
• [A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case… — Frederick Douglass
• Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a… — Leonardo da Vinci
• Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. — Seneca the Younger
• Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. — Pliny the Elder
• Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each… — Henrik Ibsen
• Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak — Epictetus

Who Wrote These Nature Has Given Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 22 Nature Has Given Quotes as follows:

• 2 Nature Has Given Quotes by Samuel Johnson
• 2 Nature Has Given Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 2 Nature Has Given Quotes by Claudius Claudianus
• 2 Nature Has Given Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
• 2 Nature Has Given Quotes by Epictetus
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Socrates
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by James Anthony Froude
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Jane Austen
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Frederick Douglass
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Leonardo da Vinci
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Pliny the Elder
• 1 Nature Has Given Quote by Henrik Ibsen