Cultivate Quotes
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens .
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cultivate friendships. If you don’t have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.
gracie allen— Ch. 6 : How not to offend anybody
Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.
syama prasad mookerjee— Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata on 7th December 1935.
Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it develop charm and vivacity and charm!
tennessee williams— Amanda, Scene Two
Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people as may be noticed of most young children does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.
dinah maria mulock— Ch. 8. (A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858))
If all the Labourers in aVillage breed up several Sons to the same work there will be too many Labourers to cultivate the Lands belonging to theVillage, and the surplus Adults must go to seek a livelihood elsewhere, which they generally do in Cities.
Richard Cantillon— 1730-4 Essay on the Nature of Trade.
Always,Sir, set a highvalue onspontaneouskindness.He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attract to you.
— 1781 Remark, May. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.
Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
jane welsh carlyle— Letter to John Sterling (5 August 1845)
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
bill cosby— Originally from Stuart Chase
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.
françois fénelon— P. 317. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
samuel gompers— The Shoe workers' journal, Volume 16? (1915) p.4
Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.
immanuel jakobovits— The Jewish Idea of Prayer, p.xvi
One of my favorite phrases that brings me great comfort: We are not on earth as museum keepers, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life and to prepare a glorious future. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope!
— Journal entry on the day Pope Pius XII died (9 October 1958); published in Journal of a Soul (1965)
Now, on the contrary, when every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied. [...] His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.
max stirner— Cambridge 1995, p. 108
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
james joseph sylvester— "A plea for the mathematician", Nature, Volume 1, page 261.
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
booker t. washington— Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
You must cultivate poverty of spirit . Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.
margaret atwood— Chapter 12 (p. 64) (The Handmaid’s Tale (1985))
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
james baldwin— "The Creative Process" (1962) originally published in The National Culture Center's Creative America (1962) and later published in The Price of the Ticket (1985)
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
samuel johnson— 1781, p. 479.
Virtue is not a chemical product, as Taine once described it: it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key. That, I submit, is what has happened in our own lifetime.
Lewis Mumford— Values for Survival (1946)
Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.
keshub chunder sen— Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
edith sitwell— As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
john lancaster spalding— p. 240 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Once we realize that the principles of our actions have no other support than our blind choice, we really do not believe in them anymore... In order to live, we have to silence the easily silenced voice of reason, which tells us that our principles are in themselves as good or as bad an any other principles. The more we cultivate reason, the more we cultivate nihilism...
leo strauss— p. 6 (Natural Right and History (1953))
It is, therefore, with the sincerest pleasure I have observed on the part of the British government various manifestations of a just and friendly disposition towards us; we wish to cultivate peace and friendship with all nations, believing that course most conducive to the welfare of our own; it is natural that these friendships should bear some proportion to the common interests of the parties.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Sir John Sinclair, July 31, 1816.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 15, p. 54 (1904).
We must watch over pious impressions, and cultivate them, or they will never become vigorous and enduring.
— William Ellery Channing, p. 454. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
— Isaac Barrow, p. 612. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.
— George Washington, in his Farewell Address (17 September 1796).
cultivate simplicity,Coleridge.
Charles Lamb— 1796 Letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 8 Nov. Collected in E W Marrs Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol.1 (1975).
