Sophistication Quotes
123 Sophistication quotes by 112 unique authors
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As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
— Haile Selassie
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Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
— Bill Budge
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Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys…
— Joyce Appleby
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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
— Oliver Lodge
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It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves…
— Ralph Linton
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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Sophistication is upscale conformity.
— James Richardson
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One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn…
— Jim Rohn
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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
— Don Herold
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.
— Caroline Myss
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To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is…
— Francis Chan
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Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow…
— Jack Kornfield
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
— Iain Glen
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In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication…
— Howard Fineman
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Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly…
— William Moulton Marston
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Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower,
— Paul Budnitz
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This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of…
— Stanislav Grof
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Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly…
— Ashley Kahn
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Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then…
— Walt Whitman
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Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the…
— Paul Harvey
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Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.
— Annie Dillard
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I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to…
— Lin Yutang
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Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.
— Edward Hoagland
Who Wrote These Sophistication Quotes
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