Philosophy Quote by Frederico Rochaferreira

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The world of most men is given to them by their culture..”

— Richard Wright

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

— Albert Camus

But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of…

— William Ellery Channing

“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors. ”

— Simone Weil

“But my basic premise is that our mental, cultural template for a powerful person remains resolutely male. If we close our eyes and try…

— Mary Beard

“Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.”

— Raheel Farooq

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity,…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the…

— Bertrand Russell

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Such men will never know the added love of their culture which comes from a knowledge of other ways of life.”

— Ruth Benedict