Culture Quote by Nicholas Ostler

“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”

— Matthew Arnold

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books…

— John Cowper Powys

“culture – the collectively shared meaning”

— David Bohm

“Culture is action, not words.”

— Jason Fried

“Culture is any and all human effort and labor expended upon the cosmos, to unearth its treasures and its riches and bring them into…

— Henry R Van Til

“Culture is the ability to store, exchange, and improve ideas.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

“What is culture? It’s a set of consistent patterns people follow for communicating, thinking, and acting, all grounded in their shared assumptions and values.”

— Michael D. Watkins

“The great works of culture have it in their power to clear mental confusion, they give us words for things we had felt but…

— The School of Life

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

— Tim Chester

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”

— John Lukacs

“There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world— any place at all.”

— Daniel Quinn

“What helps define a particular culture? Values, beliefs, attributions, ideologies.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky