Customs Quotes

252 quotes by 216 authors

Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we donâ€™t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge,… — Dainin Katagiri
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior -… — Marvin Harris
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,… — Max Nordau
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Customs, morals â€” is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight,… — Jubal
To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it… — Kim Il-sung
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it… — Max Muller
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture… — Walter E. Williams
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs. — Robert A. Heinlein
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a… — Friedrich Schiller
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws. — Baron de Montesquieu
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth
Customs represent the experience of mankind. — Henry Ward Beecher
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse. — John Keats
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — John Stuart Mill
Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing… — Sean O'Casey

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