« All Civilisation Quotes
·
Yehudi Menuhin's Page
Civilisation Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin
1 Civilisation quote by Yehudi Menuhin
More Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -…
-
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every…
-
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the…
-
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and…
-
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100…
-
I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often,…
-
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
-
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is…
-
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that…
-
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate…
-
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn…
-
Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.
See all 28 quotes by Yehudi Menuhin »
More Civilisation Quotes
Popular Civilisation quotes from across the collection:
-
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules…
— Annie Besant
-
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but…
— Annie Besant
-
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping…
— Bill Bryson
-
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
— James Buchan
-
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,…
— David Cameron
-
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
-
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
— Thomas Jefferson
-
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -…
— Yehudi Menuhin
-
Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
— Andrew Carnegie
-
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
-
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look…
— Swami Vivekananda
-
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a…
— Carl Sagan
See all Civilisation Quotes »
Browse Yehudi Menuhin Quotes by Category