#cultivate

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#always #before #cheerfulness #cultivate #deepest

An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought. ↗

— John Dewey

#empiricism #habit #pragmatism #experience

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

#alone #artist #avoid #being #being alone

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. ↗

— William Beveridge

#among #citizens #cultivate #democracy #dictators

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. ↗

— Mos Def

#built #cultivated #culture #def #done

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. ↗

— Bob Dole

#cultivate #deserve #moral #name #names

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

#cultivate #get #green #i #into

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person. ↗

— Eric Braeden

#cultivated #feelings #first #like #love

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#arisen #aspect #been #cultivate #desire

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #cultivated #doubt #ever #father