Quotes About Culture

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.