Quotes about Cultivation

Former President of the United States

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

Cultivation - Education - Giving - Judging - Man - Stupid - Weakness

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Cultivation - Effort - Good - Life - Prosperity

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Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation Master, Scholar, Teacher

Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.

Cultivation - Generosity - Oneself - Open - Projection

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

Cultivation - Habit - Pure - Virtue

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

Cultivation - Significance

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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Cultivation - Employment - Politeness - Studying

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

Compassion - Cultivation - Expenses - Help - Interest - Overcome - Problem - Pursuit - Religion - Selfishness - Suffering - Teaching - Tolerance - Traditions

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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

I believe the ultimate path to enlightment is the cultivation of gratitude. When you're grateful, fear disappears. When you're grateful lack disapears. You feel a sense that life is uniquely blessed, but at the same time, you feel like you're a part of everything that exists and you know that you are not the source of it. In that state you show up differently for the people around you. Just walking around you vibrate.

Belief - Blessing - Cultivation - Feelings - Gratefulness - Path - People - Show - State - Vibrations

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

Cultivation - Dependence - Heroism - Man - Morals - Whole

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Boredom - Cultivation - Existence

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.

Altruism - Atmosphere - Belief - Cultivation - Emotions - Feelings - Giving - Jealousy - Mindset - People - Spiritual

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

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

Agriculture - Cultivation

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

Certainty - Cultivation - Quality

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

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

Cultivation - Food - Mindset

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Dogen

Buddhist Priest, Philosopher, Founder of the Soto School of Zen

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

Cultivation - Earth - Marking - Religion

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Cultivation - Living - Relationship - Sameness - Survival

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Horace Mann

Lawyer, Educator, Education Reformer

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

Cultivation - Earth - Man

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race of inferior beings condemned by nature to perpetual pupilage, and fruitlessly endeavouring to remedy their barrenness by incessant cultivation, or succour their feebleness by subsidiary strength. They presume that none would be more industrious than they, if they were not more sensible of deficiences; and readily conclude, that he who places no confidence in his own powers owes his modesty only to his weakness.

Ability - Arrogance - Book - Cultivation - Flattery - Inferiority - Man - Opinion - Remedy - Sense - Waste - Weakness

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

Constraint - Creativity - Cultivation - Human - Missing - Realization - Talent

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