The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law. — Connor Jessup Copy Share Image
But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts. — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“. . the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration.” — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that make our heart sing.” — Scott Hartley Copy Share Image
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy -- for some, strangely or frighteningly easy -- to join… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can… — Peter singer Copy Share Image
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“And that is why I would propose that, in our teaching of the humanities, we should emphasize the enduring creations of the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing. — Andrew Lincoln Copy Share Image
Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber” — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“But at MIT there was a rule: You have to take some humanities courses to get more “culture.” — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Since the humanities are not problem-oriented, Lou Burnard argues that their methodologies cannot be formalized.” — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
