Bible Quote by Jan Smuts

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than…

— Jan Smuts

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

— Jan Smuts

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

— Jan Smuts

This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the…

— Jan Smuts

The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder…

— Jan Smuts

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position…

— Jan Smuts

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

— Jan Smuts

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the…

— Jan Smuts

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

— Jan Smuts

In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still remain utter…

— Jan Smuts

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

— Jan Smuts

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

— Jan Smuts