Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. -Matthew Arnold

 

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.


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This quote is just one of 12 total Matthew Arnold quotes in our collection. Matthew Arnold is known for saying 'Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.' as well as some of the following quotes.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Matthew Arnold