Famous Quotes About nature

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.