Bernard Berenson Quotes

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

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernard Berenson

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

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

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

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

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

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