Brotherhood Quote by Ruth Benedict

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

— Ruth Benedict

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary…

— Ruth Benedict

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

— Ruth Benedict

“Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.”

— Ruth Benedict

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

— Ruth Benedict

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

— Ruth Benedict

The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical

— Ruth Benedict

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

— Ruth Benedict

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

— Ruth Benedict

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations…

— Ruth Benedict

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

— Ruth Benedict

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

— Ruth Benedict