Quotes About Culture

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence.

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.

De vez en cuando asistían a conciertos de música clásica india, donde Sonia aprendió sobre ragas (melodía clásica) y ghazals (poemas cantados en urdu)

la línea divisoria entre la barbarie y la civilización nunca es una frontera geográfica entre diferentes países, sino una frontera moral dentro de cada pueblo; es más, dentro de cada individuo».

Y es que, como ya apuntó hace años Arthur C. Clarke, autor de 2001: una odisea del espacio, un pueblo poco desarrollado no podrá distinguir nunca cualquier tecnología superior de la magia. Qué gran verdad.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Nationalism is essentially a group memory of past achievements, traditions, and experiences

Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power.