Their Nature Quotes
84 quotes by 72 authors
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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
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Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
— Baruch Spinoza
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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
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
— Plato
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.
— Edward Rutherfurd
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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
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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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