Best Our Nature Sayings
197 Our Nature quotes by 165 unique authors
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us;…
— Errol Morris
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The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is…
— James Monroe
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It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
— Farley Mowat
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People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of…
— Mary Alice
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It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else…
— Alex Van Halen
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Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day.…
— Horace Mann
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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
— Albert Einstein
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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
— Jeremy Collier
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If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb…
— Wilfrid Noyce
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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It is like a…
— Rajneesh
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The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves,…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
— Agnes Repplier
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Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny.
— Myles Munroe
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So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue…
— Arun Manilal Gandhi
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Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
— Napoleon Hill
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Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
— Krista Tippett
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We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can…
— Kij Johnson
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As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature;…
— Thomas Boston
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If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for…
— Lewis Thomas
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Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
— Elihu Palmer
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Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.
— Arthur Eddington
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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it…
— C.S. Lewis
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