Culture Quotes
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. -- Matthew Arnold
Arnold, Matthew
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Arnold, Matthew
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.
Arnold, Matthew
Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Bacon, Francis
A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
Beecher, Henry Ward
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
Bovee, Christian Nestell
Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.
Burroughs, John
Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
Chekhov, Anton
The more refined one is, the more unhappy. -- Anton Chekhov
Chesterfield, Lord
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
Gandhi, Mahatma
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Goethe, Johann Von
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Hamerton, Philip G.
Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves.
Ikeda, Daisaku
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.
Malraux, Andre
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.
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Rand, Ayn
A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
Seneca
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.