Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all… — Gardner Murphy Copy Share Image
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body. He has… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned. The techniques of my… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
![“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane... It refers to the attainment of both material well-being and the elevation of the human spirit, [but] since…” quote by Fukuzawa Yukichi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b23/fukuzawa-yukichi-22233_attainment_in-its-broad-sense-civilization-means-no_1507246.jpg)
