Humanities Quotes

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I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of… — Steven Pinker
Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing… — Sylvia Plath
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
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 are… — Allan Bloom
He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably. — Richard Russo
He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men. — Nora Roberts
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. — Steve Jobs
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these… — Richard P. Feynman
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the… — Barack Obama
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and… — Iain McGilchrist
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged… — Lisa Randall
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. — Eric Kandel
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small… — Drew Gilpin Faust
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the… — Henry Giroux
Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left the body and… — Siri Hustvedt
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. — Jim Leach
The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. — Irving Babbitt

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