Anthropology Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

“Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well…

— Stanisław Lem

“no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.”

— Anonymous

“The central importance of entering worlds other than our own lies in the fact that the experience leads us to understand that our own…

— Walter Goldscmidt

“Once we distinguish race and culture, the way is open to acknowledge that not all cultures are equally admirable, and that not all cultures…

— Roger Scruton

“It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.”

— Tim Chester

“Whenever new knowledge of a transforming nature permeates the race, the standard of world culture rises.”

— Walter Russell

“That was a brilliant reminder that looking at the world from the vantage point of other cultures can open us up to all kinds…

— Shawn Achor

“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural…

— René Girard

“Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have…

— Stephen Richards

“Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.”

— Nancy Petralia

“Simply put, relating to the world by following the world can be a recipe for disappointment and disillusionment. Countercultures that point out the problem…

— Gabe Lyons

“Openness is like a sport, we need to practice it every day to get the best ability to be open to others’ ideas after…

— A.A. Alebraheem