Development of one's mind or capacities through one's own efforts.
Синонимы
Examples for "self-cultivation "
Examples for "self-cultivation "
1 A woman also needs self - cultivation , both physical and mental, in order to self-respect.
2 The com-parison of T'ai Chi Ch'uan to self - cultivation and good health goes without saying.
3 They practiced self - cultivation and seriousness & owned to a bewildering complexity of attitudes & rites.
4 He understood that mankind believed in an unbroken work of development within nature, and in their own self - cultivation .
5 Do you know, he is very witty and well informed, though he says he never had much time for self - cultivation ?
1 Culture, for which nearest German equivalent is Bildung , is the opposite of all this.
2 (Vochting, "Ueber die Bildung der Knollen", Cassel, 1887; see also "Bot.
3 "Die fruchtbarste und allgemeinste Ursache der Varietaten - Bildung ist jedoch die Wahl der Lebens-Weise" (loc.
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