Humanities Quote by Alain de Botton

Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who…

— Brian Boyd

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

— Ken Robinson

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just…

— Martha Nussbaum

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

— Rebecca Goldstein

“The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They…

— Allan Bloom

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in…

— Terry Eagleton

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Jim Leach

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of…

— Ronald Reagan

“let’s also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute…

— Edward O. Wilson