Quotes About Culture

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

in China, where no man gets a title until he is dead; and that is a better way, after all, than with us. When a man does something very good there, they give a title of nobility to his father, who is dead, or to his grandfather.

The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.

My interest in how people lived was nourished quite literally by the food I shared with them.

In Europe where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

Sin importar si las oficinas de un superjefe están físicamente alejadas o no, la falta de jerarquía, las largas horas de trabajo y la búsqueda y fe compartidas en la visión del superjefe contribuyen a fortalecer una cultura de grupo.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Ninety percent of what we believe has nothing to do with the process of thought, but comes instead from the four sources of family inheritance, individual temperament, national culture, and economic self-interest; and while we cannot wholly cast off these shackles, we should at least recognize their cramping and distorting influence upon the free process of thought.

In a real sense, all of us are "the parents" of all young children - because we help shape the culture and determine its values.

But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

Somebody once said that if many people had not read about romantic love and seen it on the screen, they would never look for it themselves. I believe this. And along with it I believe that if many people were not ashamed to be thought deficient in "family feeling" they would never have children.

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society.

As the French say, there are three sexes—men, women, and clergymen.

In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?… Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy, and sell, and torture?

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Architecture today need not be just that which you bump up against when you try to look at something else nor a monument culturally framed and rendered visible by its own importance. Architecture's new confounds are not just making buildings visible but are encouraging them to find ways to make perception enter the realm of experience rather than vision, to make images that produce material impressions, to make experience that is vivid.