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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. – Matthew Arnold

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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

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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

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

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

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

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