It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too gr…

- Edward T. Hall

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the r…

- Edward T. Hall

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

- 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 o…

- Edward T. Hall

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

- Edward T. Hall

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

- 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 organis…

- 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.…

- Edward T. Hall

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when …

- Edward T. Hall