Famous Quotes About nature

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.