Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
— Edith Stein
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
— Oscar Wilde
Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.
— Frank Turek
It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.
— Charles Swindoll
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
— William Jones
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
— Peter Kreeft
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
— Livy
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
— Marcus Aurelius
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
— Samuel Johnson
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
— John Updike