Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace…

— Anonymous

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for…

— Gary Ryan Blair

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,…

— Dogen

In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's…

— Annia Ciezadlo

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture…

— George Will

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough…

— Henry A. Wallace

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most…

— Robert Aris Willmott

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality…

— Fernando Pessoa

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair…

— Pierre de Coubertin

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

— John Stuart Mill

The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only…

— Dalai Lama

The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the…

— John Stokes