Cultivation Quotes

135 quotes by 114 authors

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. — James A. Baldwin
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and… — Franklin P. Adams
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. — B R Ambedkar
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. — Bruce Lee
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. — Samuel Johnson
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let… — Lucretia Mott
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in… — Dalai Lama
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the… — Joseph Wood Krutch
No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will… — Hugh Leonard
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization. — Carl Sagan
(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring… — Cesar Chavez
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not… — Mencius
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre de Coubertin
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness.… — Stephen Levine
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig

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