To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the…

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men…

— Ovid

Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

— Graeme Souness

Only eliminating all pains in the ass the real mild and gentle man can live in peace.

— William C. Brown

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

— Martin Luther

Though manners makes, yet apparel shapes.

— Vikrant Parsai

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

— Ovid

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

— Charlie Trotter

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle…

— Robert Reich

“I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In our shared…

— Alex Kudera

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a…

— Derek Bok

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may…

— Charlie Munger

We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and…

— Owen Gleiberman

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and…

— Steve Jobs