Refinements Quotes

I'm becoming more and more myself with time.

I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization;

it is the best part of refinement and, in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either.

Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization;

it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

But wealth is a great means of refinement;

and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art.

They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding.

The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement.

All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.