Their Nature Quotes

84 quotes by 72 authors

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common… — Joseph Addison
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made.… — Jean de la Bruyere
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not… — William Hazlitt
Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name… — Saint Augustine
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply… — Rajneesh
The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature — Baruch Spinoza
Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet… — Xunzi
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. — Plato
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than… — Henry Ward Beecher
Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature… — Maimonides
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion… — John Derbyshire
Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and… — Pope Paul VI
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and… — Francois Fenelon
All empires become arrogant. It is their nature. — Edward Rutherfurd
Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but… — Laozi
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are… — Dalai Lama

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