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Bernard Berenson

b: Vilnius, Lithuania, Jun 26, 1865

d: Settignano, Italy, 6, 1949

American. Art Historian. Talian Renaissance expert; wrote Drawings of the Florentine Painters, 1903.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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?

  • We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's own training.

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