The higher the culture, the more honourable the work. [ Roscher ]
Half of them are without heart, half without culture. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture. [ Moses Harvey ]
Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true fertilizer. [ Mme. de Girardin ]
Culture implies all which gives a mind possession of its powers. [ Emerson ]
Many a college student only succeeds in mastering a disqualifying culture. [ Edward L. Youmans ]
Education is only like good culture, - it changes the size, but not the sort. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Culture, which has licked all the world into shape, has reached even the devil. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To write well is to think well; there is no art of style distinct from the culture of the mind. [ Ernest Renan, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves. [ Horace Greeley ]
Natural intelligence may make up almost every step in culture, but no culture make up for natural intelligence. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
A society of people will cursorily represent a certain culture, though there is not a gentleman or a lady in the group. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. [ Goethe ]
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit. [ Seneca ]
Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. [ Ouida ]
An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge; it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man. [ Carlyle ]
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
True art is like good company; it constrains us in the most charming way to recognise the standard after which and up to which our innermost being is shaped by culture. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes be wears, or what culture he boasts. [ Chapin ]
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. [ Hamerton ]
The culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures that improves alike the mind and the heart, and makes every true lover of those beautiful creations of Infinite Love, wiser, purer, and nobler. [ J. Vick ]
After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters. [ Nodier ]