Quotes about Nature
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
— Joseph Addison
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
— Laurence Sterne
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
— Thomas Jefferson
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
— Livy
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
— William Wordsworth
I am by nature a worried optimist.
— Madeleine Albright
God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
— Malcolm X
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
— Marcus Aurelius
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.
— Marcus Aurelius
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
— Cicero