54 Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin

Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years.

Peace may sound simple – one beautiful word – but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one’s care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.

I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I’m afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I’d rather be an amateur.

It is perhaps life’s greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one’s wits, one’s sense of humor, one’s health, and one’s charm.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being – a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility – these are the very foundation of any real civilization.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.