Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

George Bernard Shaw

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

Galileo Galilei

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.

Galileo Galilei

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

Galileo Galilei

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

George Eliot

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord.

Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.

Christina Rossetti

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti

Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

George R. R. Martin

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

George Carlin

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Gene Tierney

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Frank Waters

The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm.

George Edward Woodberry

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

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.