Humanities Quotes

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The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced. — Ruth Simmons
The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe… — George Lucas
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson
The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to… — Michelle Obama
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing.… — Jon Secada
What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities… — Simon Baron-Cohen
Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences,… — Barack Obama
But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts. — Gavin de Beer
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state'… — Stephen D. Cox
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural… — Robert Watson-Watt
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.Â The appalling disparities… — Bill Gates
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities. — Sue Grafton
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written… — Robert P. Crease
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded! — Winston Churchill
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of… — Camille Paglia
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of… — Aldous Huxley
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought,… — John Updike
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it,… — Saul Bellow
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn… — Ruth Benedict
I have a long-term interest in the humanities. — Jim Leach

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