Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced. — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
“. . the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration.” — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree and a spell as spin doctor. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded! — Winston Churchill 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
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law. — Connor Jessup Copy Share Image
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
“Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars, but it's humanities that make sure, we don't leave behind our humanity, otherwise we'll… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The humanities, in contrast, emphasise the crucial importance of intersubjective entities, which cannot be reduced to hormones and neurons.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics,… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
“Since the development of mathematics is often inspired and guided by aesthetic considerations, mathematics can be described as “amphibious”: It is both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla 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
“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry,… — Terry Eagleton 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
“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 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
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial… — Terry Eagleton 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 case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized,… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age… — Charles Darwin 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
“More than twenty years ago Sir Charles Snow lamented the sharp division between “The Two Cultures,” the literary/artistic and the scientific. My… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. — Harry Amos Bullis Copy Share Image
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
