Top 234 Cultivation Quotes & Sayings

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?

The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.

It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.

I started paddy cultivation not for profit.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.