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Humanities are the instructors of enchantment. -- David Brooks
Humanities' greatest desire is to belong and connect. -- Jason Russell
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist. -- Andrew Carnegie
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities. -- Sue Grafton
I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . . -- Audre Lorde
He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably. -- Richard Russo
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities. -- Danielle Brooks
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003) -- David McCullough
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. -- Stephen Hawking
The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist. -- Harry Reid
After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities. -- Azar Nafisi
In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities. -- Danielle Brooks
The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times. -- Jim Leach
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. -- Estelle Morris
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. -- Jim Leach
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. -- J. Irwin Miller
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law. -- Connor Jessup
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. -- Ken Robinson
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. -- David McCullough
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. -- Irving Babbitt
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. -- Mohsin Hamid
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
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. -- Eric Kandel
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 human endeavor. -- Steven Pinker
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. -- Sebastian Thrun
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 beneficiaries - the arts and humanities. -- Lisa Randall
The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult. -- Philip Warren Anderson
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities. -- Joshua Lederberg
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. -- Ruth Benedict
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. -- Camille Paglia
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. -- Camille Paglia
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times. -- Stephen Furst
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities. -- Amity Shlaes
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed. -- Terry Eagleton
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford. -- Nick Denton
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 part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. -- Barney Frank
Combine science and humanities. -- Steve Jobs
I have a long-term interest in the humanities. -- Jim Leach
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom -- Umberto Eco
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded! -- Winston Churchill
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. -- Estelle Morris
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. -- Terry Eagleton
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. -- Mia Wasikowska
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced. -- Ruth Simmons
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. -- Alfred L. Kroeber
But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts. -- Gavin de Beer
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities -- Alfred L. Kroeber
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. -- Harry Amos Bullis
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false -- Clifford Geertz
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. -- Clifford Geertz
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. -- Vincent Massey
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. -- Rafael Moneo
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. -- Steve Jobs
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time. -- Gordon S. Wood
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government. -- Jim Leach
Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English. -- Cynthia Ozick
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack. -- Ian Mcewan
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve. -- Stefan Collini
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
I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids. -- Stefan Banach
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences. -- Robert Watson-Watt
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 things ... -- Richard P. Feynman
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts. -- Ken Robinson
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'. -- Stephen D. Cox
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book. -- Robert P. Crease
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress. -- Robert Hass
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered. -- Amelia Barr
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part. -- Ronald Reagan
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 between mind and brain. -- Iain McGilchrist
My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches. -- Christian de Duve
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 biology out of their discussions. -- Siri Hustvedt
I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities. -- J. Irwin Miller
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities. -- Ellen Ullman
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion. -- Camille Paglia
The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore. -- Bill Ayers
The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity. -- Lewis Mumford
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies. -- Camille Paglia
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more. -- Jon Secada

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