Quotes About Culture

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

A man who don't know history, he don't know anything.

There is only one Human race but many nations with diverse tribes.

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

Personal sophistication never goes out of style.

An uncultured mind often gets attracted by the extreme.

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.