Quotes About Uncultivated

#1. You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.

Stephen Fry

#2. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

David Hume

#3. If only I had it in me to be all fierce, fearless and forthright instead of forever sprinkling my discourse with pitiful retractions, apologies and prevarications.

Anonymous

#4. What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Derrick Jensen

#6. Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.

Robertson Davies

#7. Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#8. If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature.

Charles Webster Leadbeater

#9. The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and wherethese principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.

Herman Melville

#10. How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.

Philip K. Dick

#11. The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years.

Alison Moyet

#12. She was stone cold and hard as fuck. And that's when I knew, she was a ride or die chick. The Letty to my Dom. I

A. Zavarelli

#13. If I have a foreign accent - which I much regret - it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

Sarah Bernhardt

#14. I feel naturally florid when I look up again. I look like a flourish. I look the way the word galore feels. I feel uncultivated beautiful, like pure, organic allure.

Sarah Elizabeth

#15. I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#16. I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

Will Rogers

#17. Even the heaviest rocks don't make a very big splash.

Marty Rubin

#18. I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
[Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis.]

Horace

#19. Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.

Sophie Von La Roche

#20. If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

John Flavel

#21. Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Denis Diderot

#22. The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.

Lord Chesterfield

#23. The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

Joseph Addison

#24. Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.

Tanith Lee

#25. We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.

Adoniram Judson

#26. The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Plutarch

#27. Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#28. But I do have conversations about the Patriarchy and I am having them with gay men. At eighteen, I am discovering what generations of women have long known. The natural ally of the straight woman is the gay man because they are others losers too.

Caitlin Moran

#29. Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Rush Limbaugh

#30. Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

Francois Quesnay

#31. He crossed his arms over the chair back and smirked his disapproval at Brother Fowles. "Sir, I offer you my condolences. Personally I've never been troubled by any such difficulties with interpreting God's word." "Indeed, I see that," Brother Fowles said.

Barbara Kingsolver

#32. Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Victor Hugo

#33. Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

Charles Grandison Finney

#34. I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

Saint Patrick

#35. But since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it) ...

John Locke

#36. Your grace's words have been like manure spread on the barren ground of my dry and uncultivated mind.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#37. Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

D.R. Silva

#38. What are we, after all, without our memories ... without our dreams?

Nicholas Sparks

#39. An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar