Natures Quotes

208 Natures quotes by 170 unique authors

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… — Walter Lippmann
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. — William Shakespeare
Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits. — Thomas Browne
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated… — Sam Shoemaker
What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things. — Benjamin Franklin
It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so… — Vance Havner
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock… — Victor Hugo
Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through… — Lucretius
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. — Unknown Author
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in… — Agnes Smedley
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. — Antonia Fraser
The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life. — Steve Redhead
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity. — Herbert Gold
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures. — William Shakespeare
Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness. — Orison Swett Marden
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the… — Wallace Stevens
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in… — Carl von Clausewitz
It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect… — Margaret Gatty
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything. — Arthur Symons
Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has… — Marcus Aurelius

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