Logo
Quote by John Abbott
Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. -

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

Other quotes by John Abbott

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. – John Abbott

Category:
Knowledge
Author
John Abbott
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Culture
category

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

Category:
Culture

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

Category:
Culture

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

Category:
Culture

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

Category:
Culture

Random Quotes

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources. – Matthew Simpson

Category:
Knowledge

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes. – Robert Kiyosaki

Category:
Fear

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. – Francis Darwin

Category:
Excellence

Goodness is beauty in the best estate. – Christopher Marlowe

Category:
Integrity