Nature & World Sayings

343 sayings found from 343 authors

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

— Frederick the Great c. 1740s-1780s
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You are like a dog, you bark at the wind.

— Shaka Zulu c. 1820s
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Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

— Walt Disney Unknown
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.

— Coco Chanel Unknown
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Struggle can be strategic training.

— Madam C.J. Walker Unknown
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The white man thinks he is wise. But he does not know the wisdom of the earth. He does not know the wisdom of the animals.

— Sitting Bull Unknown
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We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless.

— Geronimo 1906
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Let us cultivate our garden.

— Voltaire 1759
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I have seen many men with long beards and little brains.

— Akbar the Great Late 16th century
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Patience means restraining one’s inclinations.

— Tokugawa Ieyasu Early 17th century
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I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, legitimate king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters of the earth.

— Cyrus the Great 539 BCE
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
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The will is by its nature so free that it can never be constrained.

— Rene Descartes 1649
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But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth.

— Thomas Hobbes 1642
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Nature has no end in view, and all final causes are nothing but human figments.

— Baruch Spinoza 1677
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Nature makes no leaps.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1704 (published 1765)
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The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

— Francis Bacon 1620
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The most tremendous energy of which human nature is capable is the agony of being a self.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1849
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The sea is one of the most powerful and wonderful things I have ever seen and I wish to remain by the sea all the time.

— Ibn Battuta c. 1320s-1340s
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
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