The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. — Donald G. Mitchell Copy Share Image
We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement. — Natasha Tsakos Copy Share Image
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement. — Arthur Gray Copy Share Image
“God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and… — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and… — Stefan Hell Copy Share Image
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
“The fires of refinement come with a cost, but also with a promise. His grace has been extended forth to you for… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
“There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom;… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman.” — Jan Moran Copy Share Image
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Refinement is the sign of deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.” — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
