#cultivated

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

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

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

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. ↗

— John Tyler

#course #cultivated #depends #far #friendship

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#been #cultivated #east #europe #european

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#cultivated #habit #happy #kind #kind word

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#cultivate #cultivated #taste

In defence, I have cultivated a death wish. ↗

— Billy Fury

#death #defence #i #wish