A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.
. . . in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
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.
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.
Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking. . . Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.
Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.
Taste is improved by cultivation.
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?
Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.
The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.