N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.”
“Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.”
Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“Nature may be seen as a continuity extending from moral intuitions in humans to the trees that populate a forest.”
Source: 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return
“Nature may have even less patience than politicians.”
Source: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
“Nature may reach the same result in many ways.”
Source: The Illustrated Tesla
“Nature means Necessity.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Nature meant me
A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove,
Fond without art, and kind without deceit.”
“Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.”
“Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review board – contravening the Helsinki Declaration and every norm of moral decency, left, right, and center.”
Source: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
“Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information”
“Nature must remind itself of city people otherwise the city people continue to drown in their virtual life, unaware of nature!”
“Nature, Nation & Mother are to be worshipped …All are Feminine, and all three “Shape Us To Perfection”. All those, anywhere Worldwide, who keep that Hierarchy are Sanatan”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Nature needs no help, just no interference.”
“Nature needs our sweat to keep the blood flowing into our veins.”
Source: Quantraz
“Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.”
Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
“Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.”
Source: Letters, Conversations and Recollections
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
Source: William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude
“Nature never gives everything at once.”
Source: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland ... First American edition
“Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.”
“Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“Nature never jests.”
“Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.”
“Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.”
Source: An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].
“Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.”
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”
Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches
“Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done.”
Source: Look into the stillness
“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
“Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
[Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]”
“Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.”
Source: An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition
“Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Nature never tells a new generation the secret to living life because she answers to the laws set by the Weaver who desires to develop a deep and personal relationship with you.”
Source: The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end
“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Nature never withholds what, that is essential for other's survival. And we withhold the same.”
“Nature never writes a blind hand.”
“Nature nurtures us. We are because nature is...let us care for nature.”
“Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.”
Source: De rerum natura
“Nature of a question reflects the nature of the person.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.”
Source: Sammlung
“Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.”
“Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.”
“Nature of the Desire for Change:
There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. The tendency to look for all causes outside ourselves persists even when it is clear that our state of being is the product of personal qualities such as ability, character, appearance, health and so on. “If anything ail a man,” says Thoreau, “so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even … he forthwith sets about reforming—the world.”
It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure. The remarkable thing is that the successful, too, however much they pride themselves on their foresight, fortitude, thrift and other “sterling qualities,” are at bottom convinced that their success is the result of a fortuitous combination of circumstances. The self-confidence of even the consistently successful is never absolute. They are never sure that they know all the ingredients which go into the making of their success. The outside world seems to them a precariously balanced mechanism, and so long as it ticks in their favor they are afraid to tinker with it. Thus the resistance to change and the ardent desire for it spring from the same conviction, and the one can be as vehement as the other.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.”
“Nature offers us a limitless source of inspiration and resources; it is our duty to protect and preserve them for the generations to come.”