Quotes with nature

Quotes 321 till 340 of 832.

  • Benjamin Banneker It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race...
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Aristotle It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Edmund Burke It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Sallust It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Susan Sontag It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Hans Christian Andersen It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Deens poet and fairy tale writer (1805 - 1875)
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  • Baruch Spinoza It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Albert Einstein It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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  • Adam Weishaupt It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Lord Melbourne It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Barry Mann It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Bjork It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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