All Sayings
7,319 sayings found from the Early Modern era
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
Astronomy is written for astronomers.
Astronomy is written for astronomers.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.
I have seen the face of God.
God created, Linnaeus organized.
There are no species in nature, only individuals.
The stone grows, the plant grows and lives, the animal grows, lives and feels.
A worm is a worm, and a man is a man. But if you compare a man to a worm, you will see that a man is only a worm.
Nature does not make leaps.
I have not seen the genus Homo. I have seen many individuals.
The greatest pleasure of a gardener is to survey his work, and to admire the result of his own industry.
If a tree were to be a god, it would be a god of solitude.
The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.
Nature has been kind to me, and I have repaid her by being her faithful interpreter.
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
The greatest delight is to behold the earth, and to know what it is.