Famous Quotes About nature

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.