Edward T. Hall quotes

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. (Edward T. Hall)

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Edward T. Hall

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

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

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

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Edward T. Hall

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Edward T. Hall

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Edward T. Hall

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

Edward T. Hall

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Edward T. Hall

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

Age affects how people experience time.

Edward T. Hall

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

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

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

Edward T. Hall

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

Edward T. Hall

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

The real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.

Edward T. Hall

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

Edward T. Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Edward T. Hall

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)

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

Edward T. Hall

Occupation: American Scientist
Born: May 16, 1914
Died: July 20, 2009
Quotes count: 22

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