Quotes with ill-nature

Quotes 701 till 720 of 948.

  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Aurelius 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.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Leon Trotsky The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Mark Twain The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • David Hume The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
    A Treatise of Human Nature
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Wallace Stevens The imagination is man's power over nature.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bruno Rossi The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
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  • Aldous Huxley The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Harold Nicolson The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
    Harold Nicolson
    British writer, diplomat and politician (1886 - 1968)
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  • Vauvenargues The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • Alexander Pope The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Blaise Pascal The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Johnson The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aeschylus The man who does ill must suffer ill.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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