Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. – William Wordsworth
If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job. – Victor LaValle
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we’re man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be. – Ziggy Marley
Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible. – Wil S. Hylton
I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants. – T. C. Boyle
People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don’t challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve. – Thomas Frey
The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey’s happy as she is and she doesn’t need to be rescued, improved, or saved. – Sue Grafton
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. – Thom Mayne
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. – Zhuangzi
It’s hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you’re picking up dirty clothes and you’re doing all the tasks that the players – that nobody else wants to do. – Terry Francona
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny. – Will Ferrell
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. – Wilhelm Dilthey
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch. – Tom Arnold
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. – Wendell Berry
I’m insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right. – Susan Cain
These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children’s book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley. Each one comes trailing a long, clanking chain of references – in the form of overexcited press releases and slightly hysterical jacket blurbs – to bestsellers of a supposedly similar nature. – Tony Bradman
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. – Yuan T. Lee
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad. – Zadie Smith
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill. – Vernon Howard
For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice. – Shyam Selvadurai
I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take. – Thomas Gibson
