Cultivation Quotes

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

— William Gaddis

“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I started paddy cultivation not for profit.

— Sreenivasan

We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.

— Kurt Elling

The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.

— Sai Baba

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

— Bruce Lee

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest…

— Frederick William Robertson

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

— Samuel Johnson

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

— Marianne Williamson

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

— Mary McCarthy

“You must cultivate value within yourself if you want to move forward.”

— Bryant McGill

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

— Julius Sterling Morton

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

— Ovid

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Fernando Pessoa

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up…

— John Ruskin

Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to…

— Alan D. Eames

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in…

— Samuel Johnson

Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines…

— Elias Hasket Derby

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good…

— Anonymous

Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity,…

— Robert Grudin

Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the…

— Lucretia Mott

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital,…

— David Ricardo

I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of…

— Justus von Liebig

Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation…

— Gina Barreca

Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this…

— Cesar Chavez

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the…

— Wendell Berry

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil…

— Chinua Achebe

Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent…

— Boris Sidis

When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the…

— William Howard Taft

There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous…

— Bruno Walter

Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,…

— Steven Johnson