Logo
Quote by Ruth Benedict
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edit

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. – Ruth Benedict

Other quotes by Ruth Benedict

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

Category:
Culture
Author
Ruth Benedict
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Perception
category

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Perception

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. – Anon.

Category:
Perception

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize. – Andre Breton

Category:
Perception

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. – Martha Gellhorn

Category:
Perception

Random Quotes

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state. – Samuel Davies

Category:
Tolerance

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion thats there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. – Edward Zwick

Category:
Experience

Lucy put out her hand as if to ward his words away… – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

Category:
Speaking

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. – James Madison

Category:
Home