Refined Quotes - Page 12

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Benjamin Haydon

Ordinary, Genius, Done

Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.311

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Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness - a more refined version of the problem you already have.

Sam Harris

Sight, Meditation, Problem

"Taming the Mind". Interview with with Dan Harris, samharris.org. September 17, 2014.

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Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

Selfish, Passion, Pride

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A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.

Suzanne Curchod

Heart, Men, Chivalry

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On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

C. A. Bartol

Men, Weight, Force

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Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Lord Chesterfield

Elegance, Exalted

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I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

Thomas Huxley

Pigeons, Shooting, Rats

Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Beauty, Flower, Maturity

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Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.

Anne Waldman

Wise, Jewels, Erotic

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A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gratitude, Soul, Thanks

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No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

Sarah J. Buckley

Inspirational, Generations, Body

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Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps man to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator.

Pope Pius XII

Sports, Communication, Character

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Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Ideas, Space, Fire

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Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

Susanna Centlivre

Names, Noble

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Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

Yuja Wang

Music, Dark, Blood

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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?

William Morris

Wall, Thinking, Two

William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6494, Delphi Classics

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There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

Agnes Smedley

Strong, Sex, Men

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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonathan Edwards

Humility, Inward, Delight

Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.69

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Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.

Mark Bittman

Way, Coke, Meat

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And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

Vanessa Carlton

Artist, Thinking, People

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

Katherine Helmond

Children, Reading, Drawing

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Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the "Aussie" is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

Rachael Taylor

Who I Am, Proud, Sometimes

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.

Misty Copeland

Believe, Ballet, Way

Source: www.glamour.com

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The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Dream, Photography, Real

Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.170, Vintage

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