Any Quote by Terry Eagleton

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

— Terry Eagleton

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study…

— Richard P. Feynman

Combine science and humanities.

— Steve Jobs

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

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money…

— Alain de Botton

Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become…

— Martha Nussbaum

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about…

— Thomas Sowell

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature…

— Henry David Thoreau

With a little more deliberationin the choice of their pursuits,all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny…

— Henry David Thoreau