3,162 Quotes About Culture

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Every age gets the lunatics it deserves.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

بغير الشغف بالحياة فلا حياة بل بغير الرغبة في إستطلاع الطبيعة والقدرة النفسية على الدهشة والتعجب لكل ما تبديه الطبيعة من كائنات فلا ثقافة فليس المثقف مكتبة متنقلة خزنت في جمجمة الرأس إنما المثقف رجل حي يقف من الدنيا موقف المشترك في تطورها ونموها والمستطلع لسرها وخبيثها

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

Reading is an important product of language that serves as a foundation of civilization. Without it, humans would essentially function on sound and instinct alone, much like beasts.

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.