Best Cultures Proverbs
640 Cultures quotes by 537 unique authors
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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were…
— Jack Kornfield
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If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded…
— Dalai Lama
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Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star…
— John Robbins
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have…
— Paul Auster
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[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs…
— Sheena Iyengar
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at…
— Martin Jacques
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose…
— Anna Maria Chavez
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The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.
— Nellie McKay
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Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding…
— Tom Freston
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I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures…
— Alfred Rosenberg
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The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the…
— Jeremiah Denton
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All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth…
— Subcomandante Marcos
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It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all…
— Rick Doblin
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I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become…
— Muhammad Asad
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Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.
— Paul Buchheit
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The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often…
— Vijay Prashad
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Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations…
— Zeena Schreck
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To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with.…
— Radmilla Cody
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Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you.
— Christian Louboutin
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We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the…
— B. W. Powe
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The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into…
— Randall Munroe
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In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
— Andy Hargreaves
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High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
— Andy Hargreaves
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In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
— Edward Lawrie Tatum
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