Liberal Arts Quotes
60 quotes by 55 authors
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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
— William Wordsworth
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'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
— David Hume
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This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your…
— David Foster
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The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.
— Lorenzo Ghiberti
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If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
— Roger Zelazny
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My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to…
— Jillian Bach
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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
— Joseph Stiglitz
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Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior…
— Gene Simmons
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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
— Steve Case
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When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative…
— Margaret Atwood
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The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.
— Marva Collins
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get…
— Harrison Salisbury
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The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education…
— Martin Luther
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Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic"…
— John of Salisbury
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So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical…
— Edward H. Levi
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
— Ovid
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The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other…
— Edward H. Levi
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