"Folly is like the growth of weeds, always……" — Hosea Ballou
"Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation."
More Cultivation Quotes
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against… — James A. Baldwin
- We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation… — 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… — Lucretia Mott
- Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to… — Mary Wollstonecraft
- There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings.… — Dalai Lama
- Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face… — Joseph Wood Krutch
- No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more… — Hugh Leonard
- It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture,… — Carl Sagan