Edward T. Hall Quotes

Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space. Hall was an influential colleague of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller. Wikipedia

✵ 16. May 1914 – 20. July 2009

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The Silent Language

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Famous Edward T. Hall Quotes

“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 book The Silent Language

Source: The Silent Language

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

Edward T. Hall book The Silent Language

The Silent Language (1959)

“Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.”

Edward T. Hall book The Silent Language

The Silent Language (1959)

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