Samuel Smiles Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Thinking, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.35

• Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

  Samuel Smiles

  Children, Women, Evil

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.41

• The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

  Samuel Smiles

  Teacher, School, College

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