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Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you. -- Tom Kettle
Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity. -- Maria Montessori
Culture is something that must grow. You cannot build a tree; you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature ... -- Norman Davies
Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is
hungry and does not care about culture, and people artificially want
to turn these thoughts away from hunger and direct them towards
culture. -- Antonin Artaud
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies. -- Ruth Benedict
Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history. -- Amilcar Cabral
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. -- Ayn Rand
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Culture is religion incarnate. -- Charles Colson
Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it. -- Pearl Zhu
Culture is a virus. It distorts your view of the world and destroys your capacity to think independently. -- Merlyn Gabriel Miller
You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas. -- James Davison Hunter
Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. -- Edward T. Hall
Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are
more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most. -- Dr Robin Lincoln Wood
Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. -- Jacque Fresco
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment. -- Edgar Schein
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 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
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment ... all of that is expressed in culture. -- Wendell Pierce
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
Take responsibility for what you think and what you do. -- Terence Mckenna
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life. -- Friedrich Schiller
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 Veil
It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture. -- Tim Chester
Why, with all this good intention, does it still feel so muddy when we talk about culture, what it is, and how to make it better? It's because we're trying to bring personal growth and spiritual ideas into the workplace without first changing the underlying agreement that governs it. The -- Jonathan Raymond
The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself. -- John Mackey
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity ... It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity. -- Clifford Geertz
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere. -- Mary Robinson
We use other people's brains to navigate the world: to acquire skills and practices, and to access knowledge systems of long-dead strangers. We call this 'culture'. -- Mark Earls
I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct. -- Alison Gopnik
Cultures are virtual realities made of language. -- Terence Mckenna
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. -- Carlos Fuentes
Culture is as crucial as Nature. -- Oliver Sacks
Culture means control over nature. -- Johan Huizinga
Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage. -- H.l. Mencken
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life. -- Clifford Geertz
Culture is what we choose to repeat. -- Mark Richard Beaulieu
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it. -- Allen Tate
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future. -- Robert Payne
What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. -- Jean Dubuffet
Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations. -- Peter Heather
Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture. -- T. S. Eliot
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. -- Johan Huizinga
Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring: When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. -- Aleksandar Hemon
A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ. -- Brian Eno
The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us. -- Eric Chaisson
Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses. -- Aime Cesaire
I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking well, whatever one thinks, and therefore acting well, whatever one does. -- Antonio Gramsci
Culture opens the sense of beauty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our spiritual life. -- Kenneth A. Myers
The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind. -- Mu Xin
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development. -- Maya Angelou
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Culture is the intersection between people and dealing with the journey of life itself. How to deal with life, how a people deals with life is literally manifested in its culture, in its food, in its music, in its art, in the way you dance, the way you communicate. -- Wendell Pierce
How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Once we distinguish race and culture, the way is open to acknowledge that not all cultures are equally admirable, and that not all cultures can exist comfortably side by side. To -- Roger Scruton
Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with. -- Fredrik Backman
Culture is corporate character. -- Pearl Zhu
Culture derives its meaning from man's faith in God; it is never an end in itself, but always a means of expressing one's religious faith. -- Henry R. Van Til
Culture is any and all human effort and labor expended upon the cosmos, to unearth its treasures and its riches and bring them into the service of man for the enrichment of human existence unto the glory of God. -- Henry R. Van Til
If tensions, conflicts and irresolvable dilemmas are the spice of every culture, a human being who belongs to any particular culture must hold contradictory beliefs and be riven by incompatible values. -- Yuval Noah Harari
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life. -- Tariq Ramadan
One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9} -- Martin Heidegger
Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by way of a variety of social learning processes. -- Peter J. Richerson
True culture is in the mind, the mind," he said, and tapped his head, "the mind." "It's in the heart," she said, "and in how you do things and how you do things is because of who you are." "Nobody in the damn bus cares who you are." "I care who I am," she said icily. -- Flannery O'connor
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[ ... ]. -- Simone De Beauvoir
Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living. -- T. S. Eliot
[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall. -- Brian Chesky
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. -- William James
Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -"the solid state of "water. -- Pearl Zhu
The end of culture is right living -- W. Somerset Maugham
Culture is concerned with the world of values. All cultures are irreducibly value-oriented. -- Henry R. Van Til
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Politeness is the chief sign of culture. -- Baltasar Gracian
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society -- Edward Burnett Tylor
Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture. -- Jacob Abbott
Culture is the organization's fingerprint. -- Pearl Zhu
The key to culture is it's a framework for making decisions. And if it's baked into your culture, people learn how to make decisions across that culture without you ever saying anything. You never have to really do anything except watch and promote and move people around. -- Keith Rabois
Culture changes with economic development. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion. -- Tony Dovale
There are not two cultures, only half-cultured individuals -- Judith Merril
Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come. -- Hetti Perkins
A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn. -- Walter Rodney
Culture is worth a little risk, -- Norman Mailer
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. -- Karl Kraus
Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted. -- Thomas Pynchon
Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves. -- Warren Buffett
Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization. -- Jon Gordon
Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world, -- Brian Chesky
Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to. -- Rosie O'donnell
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science. -- Allan Bloom
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. -- George Santayana
Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time. -- Albert Einstein
Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality. -- Bob Marley
Culture is not race and race is not culture. -- Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars. -- James Russell Lowell
