Quotes of: Lewis-and-clark Keyword

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred North Whitehead

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Blaise Pascal

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Charles Eastman

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

David Hume

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D. H. Lawrence

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

David Rockefeller

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Emily Dickinson

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

E. M. Forster

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Evgeny Morozov

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

Francis Bacon

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

Frances Wright

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Honore de Balzac

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Hosea Ballou

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

Henry Miller

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

Jean de La Fontaine

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe