Quotes About Culture

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

My worst decision was not learning Spanish yet. I think it would really help my business if I could do some of my singles in Spanish or a Spanish/English mix.