Humanities Quotes · Page 2

“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.

— Andrew Lincoln

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

— Anonymous

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

— Jim Leach

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

— Mia Wasikowska

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding…

— Stefan Collini

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

— Terry Eagleton

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

— Vincent Massey

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment…

— Irving Babbitt

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of…

— J. Irwin Miller

“A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.”

— Stefan Collini

“it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that make our heart sing.”

— Scott Hartley

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders…

— Joshua Lederberg

Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left…

— Siri Hustvedt

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no…

— Stefan Banach

I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone,…

— Lee Siegel

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such…

— Nicholas Kristof

“The arts and humanities are not mere entertainment, to be turned to for relaxation after a busy day spent solving differential equations;…

— John Derbyshire

We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends…

— Ken Robinson

The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we…

— Michelle Obama

I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing…

— Carol S. Dweck

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding…

— Elliott Colla

“In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything…

— Aldous Huxley

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role…

— Terry Eagleton

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

— Jim Leach

“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber”

— Alfred L. Kroeber

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

— Martha Nussbaum

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

— Rafael Moneo

“But at MIT there was a rule: You have to take some humanities courses to get more “culture.”

— Richard Feynman

Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.

— Alissa Quart

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

— Terence Tao

“Since the humanities are not problem-oriented, Lou Burnard argues that their methodologies cannot be formalized.”

— Melissa Terras

With the closures of art schools and the drop-off in humanities, you can see where that's a direct loss for the country.

— Kelly Reichardt

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

— Alfred L. Kroeber

“Tolerence ought to be humanities community and knowledge should be an individuals goal.”

— Clarrissa Lee Moon

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

— Clifford Geertz

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

— Gordon S. Wood

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that…

— Amelia Barr