Humanities Quotes
82 quotes by 68 authors
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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
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Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
— Andrew Carnegie
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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
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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
— David McCullough
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The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business.
— Harry Amos Bullis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
— Alfred L. Kroeber
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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false
— Clifford Geertz
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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
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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
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History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
— Gordon S. Wood
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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
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The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on…
— Mark Slouka
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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
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Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
— Umberto Eco
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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
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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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