Cultivated Quotes

249 quotes by 217 authors

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. — Charles Baudelaire
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated… — Friedrich Nietzsche
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and… — Edith Wharton
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some… — Napoleon Hill
Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated… — William Blake
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their… — Aristotle
The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity… — Noah Webster
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. — Oscar Wilde
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute… — George Meredith
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring… — Thomas S. Monson
The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied. — Richard Koch
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that… — John Dryden
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the… — Louis Pasteur
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience… — Rajneesh
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is… — Karen Armstrong

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