Edward T. Hall Quotes

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
Edward T. Hall

Help, Mean, Understand

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
Edward T. Hall

Thinking, Giving, Him

The information is in the people, not in your head.
Edward T. Hall

Age affects how people experience time.
Edward T. Hall

Age, Time, Experience

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.
Edward T. Hall

Human, Lies, Situation

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
Edward T. Hall

Human, Made, Culture

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
Edward T. Hall

Nothing, Against, Talent

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
Edward T. Hall

Lost, May, Able

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
Edward T. Hall

Art, Understand, Learned

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
Edward T. Hall

God, Else, Tell

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
Edward T. Hall

Time, Future, Long

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
Edward T. Hall

Experience, True, Self

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?
Edward T. Hall

Work, Important, Real

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 16, 1914

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