Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study. Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon

Please report abuse like copyright issues or racism here.Report content

Similar Quotes
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. John Ruskin If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. Francis Bacon
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural. William Shakespeare There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. Mark Twain Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark Twain
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. Alfred Adler Through their presence, animals bring us closer to the natural world, reminding us of our responsibility to protect and preserve it.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. Theodore Roosevelt

New Quotes

The more time we spend immersed in nature, the more we realize we are a part of something vast and extraordinary. To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. John Ruskin
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. Jane Austen
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. Friedrich Nietzsche
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely. Edmond Rostand Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. William Wordsworth
He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. Plautus Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. Friedrich Nietzsche
More New Quotes

Popular Quotes

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Mary Shelley To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. Martin Luther
In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. William Penn Produce great men, the rest follows. Walt Whitman
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. John Churton Collins
More Popular Quotes
3 ?>

Let's stay in touch!

Subscribe to our Quote of the Day and get a great quote delivered to your inbox every day!

Free, no spam or ads. Unsubscribe at any time!

Per Facebook anmelden!


Share this image Close image

Follow us on Social Media:

Instagram Facebook Pinterest TwitterX
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Read More
OK