Quotes About Culture

Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

Art without knowledge is nothing!

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Ten lands are sooner known than one man.

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to

Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.