Culture

Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. – John Abbott

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. – Matthew Arnold

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others. – Mary Catherine Bateson

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…then they fall down the curtains. – Charles Baudelaire

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. – Henry Ward Beecher

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. – Jesse Bennett

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. – William Bolitho

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. – Rita Mae Brown

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. – Jean Dubuffet

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Culture is one thing and varnish is another. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. – Mahatma Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. – Hermann Goering