Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

Ezra Pound

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Eugene Wigner

The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.

Francis Bacon

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Francis Bacon

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Francis Bacon

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Francis Bacon

Art is man added to Nature.

Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Henry Miller

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Henri Bergson

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

Henri Bergson

Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it. . . .

Henri Frederic Amiel

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

Helen Keller

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

Helen Keller

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

Helen Keller

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

Helen Keller

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

Helen Keller

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

George Eliot

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

George Eliot

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

John Milton

As an engineer, I feel it's at a point we should be concerned, ... We're taking risks already. I don't like relying on nature not to do something.

People do not know My true transcendental nature. Therefore, they fall.

William Cowper

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature.

No rollout of this nature is ever going to be perfect. We're going to have issues; we're going to have problems; it's a complicated program to train people on. But we really are trying to get it right." ()

Samuel Rutherford

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.

Manolo Blahnik

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.