Humanities Quotes

82 quotes by 68 authors

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. — Irving Babbitt
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist. — Andrew Carnegie
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration… — Camille Paglia
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. — David McCullough
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. — Harry Amos Bullis
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve. — Stefan Collini
The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so… — Lewis Mumford
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is… — Joseph Stiglitz
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false — Clifford Geertz
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are… — Ken Robinson
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of… — Ken Robinson
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time. — Gordon S. Wood
After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used… — Azar Nafisi
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on… — Mark Slouka
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me… — Joshua Lederberg
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco
I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in… — J. Irwin Miller
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. — J. Irwin Miller

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