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249 Cultivated quotes by 211 unique authors

What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how… — Gabriel Zaid
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I… — Oscar Wilde
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored… — Unknown Author
Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There… — Swami Vivekananda
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance,… — Unknown Author
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.… — George Will
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile… — John Climacus
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they… — Confucius
The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of… — Hermann Hesse
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it… — Samuel Eliot Morison
All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations. — Dalai Lama
Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about… — Nick Hanauer
A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his… — Joshua Waitzkin
A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level. — Eleanor Brown
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone,… — Tennessee Williams
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. — Neel Burton
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality. — Val Kilmer
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of… — Kazuo Ishiguro
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of… — James R Newman
In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship… — Dick Cheney
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Maxim Gorky
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can… — John Kenneth Galbraith
For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires… — Ken Cohen

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