We've found 11 quotes for 'refinement' (0.131 seconds):
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"True refinement seeks simplicity." »Bruce Lee
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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." »Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
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"The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age." »Cicero
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"Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention." »Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity." »Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently." »Eugène Delacroix
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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
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"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others." »Hazlitt
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"The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." »Albert Einstein
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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 study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony." »William Ellery Channing
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