Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Henry David Thoreau

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Henry David Thoreau

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Johannes Tauler

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Johannes Kepler

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Friedrich Schiller

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Nathan Lane

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Naomi Campbell

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

Nadine Gordimer

The facts are always less than what really happened.