nature quotes

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”

— Voltaire

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

— Voltaire

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“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.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Nature never breaks her own laws.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

— Jane Austen

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”

— Jane Austen

“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”

— Walt Disney

“The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.”

— Andre Gide

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

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.”

— Bernard Meltzer

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.”

— Stephen Hawking

“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”

— Horace

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. ”

— Coco Chanel

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. ”

— Karl Marx

“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“What is art? Nature concentrated. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart”

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nature abhors annihilation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero