Refined Quotes
210 quotes by 190 authors
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
— Gaston Bachelard
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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
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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
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
— Georg Buchner
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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
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
— Anton Chekhov
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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
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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
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.
— Leonard Cohen
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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
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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
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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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