Our Nature Quotes
197 quotes by 167 authors
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to…
— P T Barnum
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If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
— Vinoba Bhave
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
— Carrot Top
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but…
— Philip Sidney
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception…
— George Santayana
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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual…
— Cyril Connolly
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is…
— Cesar Chavez
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the better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
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Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the…
— Bill Frist
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There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.
— Caroline Myss
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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I…
— Rajneesh
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
— John Dickinson
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As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly…
— Charles Spurgeon
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses…
— G. Stanley Hall
Who Wrote These Our Nature Quotes
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