Matthew Arnold's Quote - Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been kno

Quote by Matthew Arnold

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been kno

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

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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. – Matthew Arnold

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Journalism is literature in a hurry. – Matthew Arnold

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

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

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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

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

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