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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of...

Quote by Ansel Adams about philosophy, revelation, science, experience, history, art, magic, nature, spirit, world

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, humanity, nature, things

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about pain, idea, nature, human imperfections

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about opinion, nature, human imperfections, being, people

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about chaos, law, dream, order, word, nature, man

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about beginning, education, knowledge, nature, human imperfections, end

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Quote by John Adams about defects, confusion, ignorance, virtue, nature

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about nature, life

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one...

Quote by Joseph Addison about sadness, humanity, common sense, nature, man, life

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Quote by Joseph Addison about common sense, change, man, sense, nature

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Quote by Joseph Addison about weakness, nature, human imperfections

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Quote by Joseph Addison about good, good luck, praise, common sense, sense, nature, truth

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Quote by Joseph Addison about immortality, celebrity, stars, youth, sun, age, olderness, nature

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Quote by Joseph Addison about heads, nature, things

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Quote by Joseph Addison about ability, glory, nature, man

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about animals, society, nature

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about concentration, art, magic, nature

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Quote by Aeschylus about marriage, woman, nature, rightness, love, man

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Quote by Aristotel about people, habits, chance, reason, nature, human imperfections

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Quote by Aristotel about nature, contentment