Argument Quote by Martha C. Nussbaum

The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of…

— Ronald Reagan

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him…

— Amelia Barr

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just…

— Martha Nussbaum

“If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the…

— Peter singer

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a culture of…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the…

— Stephen Hawking

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.…

— Camille Paglia

“In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too…

— Philip Roth

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…

— Elliott Colla