Quote by Hu Shih
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and w

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. – Hu Shih

Other quotes by Hu Shih

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

Category:
Poetry
Author
Hu Shih
Read Quote

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. – Hu Shih

Category:
Learning
Author
Hu Shih
Read Quote

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. – Hu Shih

Category:
Society
Author
Hu Shih
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Beauty
category

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. – William Shenstone

Category:
Beauty

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within. – Rachel Stevens

Category:
Beauty

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. – Annie Dillard

Category:
Beauty

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. – Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”

Category:
Beauty

Random Quotes

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. – Sam Brown

Category:
Insults

The first resistance to social change is to say its not necessary. – Gloria Steinem

Category:
Change

The war changed everybodys attitude. We became international almost overnight. – W. Averell Harriman

Category:
Attitude

When I go into making a movie, personally, I dont try to bring other pieces of movies with me. – Amber Heard

Category:
movies