Refined Quotes

210 quotes by 190 authors

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. — Arthur Balfour
In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will… — Ezra Taft Benson
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. — Georg Buchner
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds… — James Buchan
The more refined one is, the more unhappy. — Anton Chekhov
As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are… — Frederick William Robertson
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a… — Henry David Thoreau
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game… — Mooji
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively… — Joseph Paxton
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of… — Charles William Eliot
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help you to listen… — Rajneesh
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by… — Garry Kasparov
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. — Leonard Cohen
Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul… — Iris Murdoch
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. — Charles Caleb Colton
I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong… — Stephen Foster

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