Bernard Berenson Quotes

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson

Happen, Miracles

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson

Life, Taught, Faults

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Bernard Berenson

Fun, Universe, Almost

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Bernard Berenson

Life, Self, May

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson

Today, Year, Ignorant

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson

Training, Against, Genius

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson

Busy, Stand, Hand

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Bernard Berenson

Truth, Between, Second

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson

Hope, Young, Cry

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

Life, Dream, Holy

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Bernard Berenson

Mind, Minds, Cerebral

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

Free, Others, Until

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Bernard Berenson

Beauty, Everything, Else

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 26, 1865

Died: October 6, 1959

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