Awkwardness Quote by Ovid

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

— Ovid

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out…

— Sidney Hook

A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding…

— William Hazlitt

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in…

— Harry Woodburn Chase

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime…

— Chris Carter

“A basic principle of science—of liberal social life—is that we kill our hypotheses rather than each other .”

— Jonathan Rauch

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

— Henry A. Wallace

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher…

— Frances Trollope

To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book…

— Harold Monro

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they…

— Jacob Bronowski

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

— Henry Taube