Giver Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

— Immanuel Kant

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble… Nature never appeals to intelligence…

— H. G. Wells

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

— Anonymous

“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.”

— Carl Sagan

I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only…

— James McCosh

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

— R.J. Rushdoony

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security,…

— Bertrand Russell

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

— Aristotle

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

— Rupert Sheldrake