The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax,… — Sunni Brown Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. — John Adams Copy Share Image
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time. — Jewel Copy Share Image
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY. — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out. — Horace Copy Share Image
The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation. — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. — George MacDonald 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
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
