Able Quote by Samuel Butler

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for…

— C. S. Lewis

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

— Albert Einstein

A man should be what he seems.

— William Shakespeare

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

— Nell Irvin Painter

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for…

— Edward T. Hall

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

— Anton Chekhov

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more,…

— Francis Bacon

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

— Carl Jung

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men…

— John Tooby

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

— Agnes Repplier