Quotes About Refinement

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman

If we sometimes recast problems before we begin, more often we revise our specification in the process of actually tackling them.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.

If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

Perfection - not a big thing but a combination of many small things.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

There's always room for improvement if you're ready to let go of the invaluable aspects.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

The idea of popular art, like that of a patriotic art, if not actually dangerous seemed to me ridiculous. If the intention was to make art accessible to the people by sacrificing refinements of form, on the ground that they are "all right for the idle rich" but not for anybody else, I had seen enough of fashionable society to know that it is there that one finds real illiteracy and not, let us say, among electricians.

My mother had to abandon the quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further refinement of thought, as great poets do when the tyranny of rhyme forces them into the discovery of their finest lines.

In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not; love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges, hath his seat In reason, and is judicious, is the scale By which to heavenly love thou mayest ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure, for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.