Cloistered Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want…
— Alberta Ferretti
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Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to…
— Kenny Smith
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I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic…
— Lester Bangs
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Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the…
— Anthony of Padua
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He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which…
— John Milton
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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying…
— Natalie Goldberg
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which…
— Vince Cable
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Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from…
— Will Eisner
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student.…
— William Osler
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Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent…
— Julia Scheeres
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Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
— John Steinbeck
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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race…
— John Milton
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Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There…
— Paul Robeson
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of…
— Margaret Mead
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The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting…
— Paul Di Filippo
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Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view…
— Mary Garden
Who Wrote These Cloistered Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Cloistered Quotes as follows: