Bernard Berenson quotes

" Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. " # Consistency

" Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her? " # Miracles # Virginity # Catholicism

" Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. " # Life and Living # Hatred # Faults

" Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. " # Taxes and Taxation

" Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. " # Truth

" I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. " # Waste # Time and Time Management # Beggars

" Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. " # Science and Scientists

" The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows. " # Security