Top Other Cultures Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Other Cultures quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Edward Said
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
- Edward Said
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Nick Harkaway
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.
- Nick Harkaway
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Tom Freston
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.
- Tom Freston
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Ian Cohen
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.
- Ian Cohen
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Eustace Conway
In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.
- Eustace Conway
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Gerald R. Ford
The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.
- Gerald R. Ford
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Thor Heyerdahl
This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.
- Thor Heyerdahl
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Marlene Zuk
Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.
- Marlene Zuk
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Lauren Hutton
I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.
- Lauren Hutton
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of David Livermore
Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.
- David Livermore
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Gore Vidal
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Vandana Shiva
It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.
- Vandana Shiva
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Anthony Bourdain
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.
- Anthony Bourdain
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Bill Vaughan
Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.
- Bill Vaughan
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Paulo Coelho
As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Gillian Anderson
Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."
- Gillian Anderson
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Abbas Kiarostami
I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
- Abbas Kiarostami
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Ben Kingsley
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
- Ben Kingsley
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Christian Louboutin
Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you.
- Christian Louboutin
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Larry McMurtry
The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.
- Larry McMurtry
Collection: Other Cultures
Image of Jimenez Lai
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.
- Jimenez Lai
Collection: Other Cultures