N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.”
“Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.”
“Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.”
“Nature does not forgive.”
“Nature does not have to insist.”
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.”
Source: The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology
“Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.”
“Nature does not make leaps.”
“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”
“Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.”
“Nature does not proceed by leaps.”
“Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.”
“Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.”
“Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.”
“Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.”
“Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.”
Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The system of the world
“Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.”
Source: Philosophical writings
“Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.”
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
Source: Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals
“Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.”
“Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.”
“Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.”
“Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.”
Source: The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True
“Nature does require her times of preservation.”
“Nature doesn't create questions without creating the answers first.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“Nature doesn't know good or evil. All nature knows is survival.”
Source: Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
“Nature doesn't know what to do with a childless woman of thirty-nine, except throw her that fertility curveball--aches and pains combined with extra time, like some terrifying end to a high-stakes football match.”
Source: Missing, Presumed
“Nature doesn't listen to you but you must listen to nature if you want to be happy.”
Source: Mucysless Diet Healing System : Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health
“Nature doesn’t need to predict what it’s going to do in order to determine what it’s going to do once it’s done doing it. And that’s because everything it does is for the good of everything else.”
“Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.”
“Nature doesn't cheat - people do.”
“Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.”
“Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.”
“Nature doesn't make long speeches.”
“Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.”
“Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.”
Source: Engines of Creation
“Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.”
“Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches
“Nature endowed human beings with two teleological components that define our essential humanity: consciousness and memory. Consciousness enables people to make decisions, and memory allows us to learn and share our accumulated knowledge. Cognitive endowments of consciousness and knowledge allow people to ascribe a meaning to existence, by establishing a direction and purpose to their life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.”
“Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.”
“Nature engenders the science of painting”
“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later. For all men live by truth and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.”
Source: The Poet
“Nature ensures efficiency through self-sustaining systems. Businesses should do the same.”
“Nature ensures joy and pain to everyone. When you are only expecting joy in your life, you can’t handle pain and any painful episode will seem to be even more painful to you. However, when you are mentally prepared for pain, it can’t make you suffer easily. If most people suffer, it is because they are always expecting pleasure and happiness in their life. Hence, when suffering knocks at their door, they are unprepared for it and suffer immense pain.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness