Culture Quotes, Quotations & Sayings


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

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
Simone Weil

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
Matthew Arnold

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
Andre Malraux

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.
Ayn Rand

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

Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
John Abbott

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.
Henry David Thoreau

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.
Daisaku Ikeda

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
Edith Wharton

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

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don’t see it, but somehow it does something.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert Camus

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead

Strangers in a new culture see only what they know.
Anonymous

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t.
Lord Raglan

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.
Arthur Koestler

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
Seneca

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury

Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, — the passion for sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold

The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.
Aubrey Menen

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar Wilde

You have to work at creating your own culture.
Mitch Albom

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Mahatma Gandhi

The end of culture is right living.
W. Somerset Maugham

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