Kroeber Quotes & Sayings

Everyone has honour and a good name. It is the only sacred thing that every person has. — Viktor Shel

I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled. — L.M. Montgomery

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't. — Bill Cosby

With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe. — Debasish Mridha

Wen Jiabao: "When you multiply any problem by China's population, it is a very big problem. But when you divide it by China's population, it becomes very small." The — Arthur R. Kroeber

The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices. — Paul La Farge

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it. — John Galliano

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber

I always wondered why nobody did it before me. I mean, all those comic book movies and television shows, you'd think at least one eccentric loner would have stitched himself a costume. — Mark Millar

Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves. — Ronald Reagan

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality. — Alfred L. Kroeber

It is by the mixture of counterfeit religion with true, not discerned and distinguished, that the devil has had his greatest advantage against the cause and kingdom of Christ, all along hitherto. It is by this means, principally, that he has prevailed against all revivings of religion, that ever have been since the first founding of the Christian church. — Jonathan Edwards

You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world. — Napoleon Hill

Autodidacts tend to be cranks, obtuse and self-enclosed. A professor's most important role is to make you think with rigor: precisely, patiently, responsibly, remorselessly, and not only about your "deepest ingrained presuppositions," as my own mentor, Karl Kroeber, once wrote, but also about your "most exhilarating new insights, most of which turn out to be fallacious. — William Deresiewicz