“ The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ”
- Crystal Eastman- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses. ”
- David Harold Fink- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society. ”
- Robert J. Havighurst- Copy
- 626
“ The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. ”
- James Harris- Copy
- 2K
“ The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life. ”
- Jim Bishop- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Farmers markets are green shoots coming out of the gun. They represent hope and they need to be cultivated. But we have a juggernaut coming at us. ”
- Jerry Brown- Copy
- 1.5K
“ There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. ”
- Paul Gauguin- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
- 513
“ If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? ”
- Rumi- Copy
- 1.2K
“ You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far. ”
- Sophie Marceau- Copy
- 127
“ Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ”
- Nikki Giovanni- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. ”
- James Ramsey- Copy
- 1.2K
“ True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
- 444
“ The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 123
“ The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ”
- Frank Barron- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time. ”
- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle- Copy
- 612
“ I do not want to die… until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. ”
- Käthe Kollwitz- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ”
- Charles de Montesquieu- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ”
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps- Copy
- 481
“ I do not want to die… until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. ”
- Ilatbe Kol Witz- Copy
- 4K
“ Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of "quaint," and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The post-modern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the post-modern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, "I love you madly," because he knows that she knows that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland… ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
- 3K
“ To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate… ”
- Frantz Fanon- Copy
- 265
“ Music and dancing have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place. ”
- Sir John Herschel- Copy
- 2.8K
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