Bernard Berenson Quotes

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Life, Faults)

"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Beauty, Appreciation)

"The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others."
- Bernard Berenson

"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Mind)

"Miracles happen to those who believe in them."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Miracles)

"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: People)

"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Genius, Training)

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Life, Dream, Childhood)

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Consistency, Today)

"Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Truth)

"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Fun, Universe)

"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope."
- Bernard Berenson
(Related: Hope, Despair)