Bernard Berenson

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

— 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

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?

— Bernard Berenson

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

— Bernard Berenson

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

— 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