Cultivated Quotes

Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world. — Amy Leigh Mercree

Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Maxim Gorky

Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius

Resilience isn't cultivated by avoiding stress, you see, but by learning how to tame and master it. — Jessica Joelle Alexander

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can't expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations. — Dalai Lama

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. — Oscar Wilde

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, anymore than I would have every acre of earth cultivated. — Henry David Thoreau

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage. — Alexander Suvorov

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die. — Robert Bly

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. — Tom Verlaine

Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant. — Najib Razak

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person. — Eric Braeden

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. — Oscar Wilde

Every head should be cultivated. — Abraham Lincoln

Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated. — Pearl Zhu

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy, — Mirabeau B. Lamar

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful. — Herman Melville

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

You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within. — Bryant McGill

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all. — Louis Kronenberger

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty. — Baron De Montesquieu

She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Baritone, cultivated, rolling-out-smooth voice familiar to Reiss. 'This is Doktor Goebbels. — Philip K. Dick

They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [ ... ] they will have to undertake something. — Victor Klemperer

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. — Neel Burton

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda

The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society. — Robert J. Havighurst

Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated. — J. Oswald Sanders

Yet the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. It — H.G.Wells

Manna will definitely fall from above, but it's gonna fall for those who cultivated "manner farms" on the clouds. — Israelmore Ayivor

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday. — Bob Feller

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily. — Delphine De Girardin

The voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. — H.G.Wells

Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within. — Steve Maraboli

You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as ... cultivated. — Carl Sagan

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. — Anil Ambani

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors — Henry David Thoreau

Centralization and socialism are products of the same soil. The one is to the other what the cultivated fruit is to the wild stock. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. — Charles Baudelaire

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. — Andre Maurois

Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated. — George Foster

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated. — Irvin D. Yalom

Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart. — Blaise Pascal

Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity. — Nayef Al-Rodhan

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. — Montesquieu

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. — John Tyler

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. — Peter Schjeldahl

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. — Bill Mollison

Patience is an action and a skill to be cultivated. It actually solves more problems that most other actions. — John Bruna

One thing being crowned a queen in Wonderland has taught me: Power is impotent unless it's cultivated with risks. — A.G. Howard

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people. — Tracy Lee Simmons

Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose. — Arthur Lynch

A taste for better stuff is cultivated only through experience. — Barbara Kingsolver

The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp. — Bonnie D. Ford

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties. — William Matthews

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad. — Gene Weingarten

Purpose and passion is cultivated over a lifetime of discipline and creating habits of devotion. — Cynthia Down

Cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself. — Jason Scott Lee

Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop. — Richard Mabey

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there. — Plato

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. — Henry David Thoreau

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated. — James Balog

To maintain the supreme sense of self-confidence I have cultivated, I repeat, 'I am strong, able and calm. — Robin S. Sharma

Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian - that is, a creature acting by instinct. — Gustave Le Bon

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

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. — Isaac D'Israeli

An unexpected ripple has been torn in their meticulously cultivated ghetto paradise, and I'm the mothafuckin' pebble. — Daniel Jose Older

Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic. — Timothy Mason

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me. — Lady Gaga

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed. — Ida Tarbell

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. — Joshua Foer

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way. — Jane Fonda

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers. — Susan Wise Bauer

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ... — Simone Weil

A good marriage is not "made in heaven," but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly. — Billy Graham

Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger. — Maajid Nawaz

Things cultivated over such a long time don't just vanish into nothingness. — Haruki Murakami

Friendship is something that is cultivated. — Thalia

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. — James Allen

Love is an eternal flower, blooming wherever it is cultivated. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected. — Voltaire

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

... we whose task is wakefulness itself have inherited all the strength which has been cultivated by the struggle against this error. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith doesn't run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions. — Josh Ross

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated. — Dan Glickman

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. — John Stuart Mill

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. — Lisa See

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time. — David