Best Cultivated Quotes
249 Cultivated quotes by 211 unique authors
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The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
— Lester Cole
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not…
— Ada Lovelace
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Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from…
— Immanuel Kant
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In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils…
— Howard Zinn
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
— Swami Vivekananda
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People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you start feeling separate…
— Rajneesh
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Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
— Charles Scribner IV
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When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then…
— Confucius
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must…
— Umberto Eco
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and…
— Dick Cheney
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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me,…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body…
— Andrew Carnegie
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
— Holly Black
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public....
— Abraham Lincoln
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend…
— Francis Chan
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Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
— Ezra Pound
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on…
— Alfred Austin
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