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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things… — Oscar Wilde
Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but… — Anton Szandor LaVey
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You… — Dallas Willard
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find?… — Charlotte Bronte
...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be… — Anne Bronte
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released… — Toni Morrison
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I… — Robert Jordan
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared… — Laurie R. King
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into… — Toni Morrison
A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors — Henry David Thoreau
Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.… — Emily Giffin
You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated. — Carl Sagan
But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it… — James Allen
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. — Maureen Johnson
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco
A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded… — Ernst Junger
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person… — Max Planck
My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither. — Justina Chen
She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if… — Megan Whalen Turner
A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like… — Dallas Willard
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity… — Eudora Welty
...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. — H.G. Wells

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