Refinement Quotes

• True refinement seeks simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Spiritual, Simplicity, Spirituality

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.227, Tuttle Publishing

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• I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

  Jewel

  Time, Pain, Soul

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Witty

  1950 Out of My LaterYears.

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• Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Civilization, Want, Multiplication

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• Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

  William Morris

  Simple, Simplicity, Foundation

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Effort, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.173

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• All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Mutual, Kinship

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• The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

  David Rockefeller

  Beautiful, Art, Numbers

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

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• The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

  Mary Somerville

  Women, Age, Moral

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.508

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• Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Fellow Man, Fellows

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.119

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• Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

  William Hazlitt

  Beauty Everywhere, Spectators, Objects

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• Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Art, Dark, Men

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• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fire, Would Be, World

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• A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Age, Calm, Aging

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  Iain Glen

  Class, Tongue, Faces

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

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• Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Boston, Practice, Hypocrisy

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens ...”, Harcourt

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• But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Mean, Anxiety, Wealth

  Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.135

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• The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Principles, Resistance

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

  Alice James

  Loss, Vulgarity Is, Trials

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

  Bernard Ingham

  Sports, Blood, Gossip

  1986 Speech, 5 Feb.

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• Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

  Jean Baudrillard

  America, Space, Progress

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.7, Verso

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• I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

  H. L. Hunt

  School, Thinking, Hunting

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• The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Pain, New Beginnings, Pleasure

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• If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

  David Hume

  Common Sense, Novelty, Admiration

  David Hume, J. B. Schneewind (1983). “An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals”, p.56, Hackett Publishing

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