Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is... →
Leonardo da Vinci
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and... →
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from... →
When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on... →
Mechai Viravaidya
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
Vitruvius
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -... →
Voltaire