Liberal Arts Quotes

Liberal Arts Quote of the day

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

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.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

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 greatest encouragement.

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 is easy to carry along.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

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 it later on.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

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 ends.

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

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 parts.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

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

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction.

Give a poet a pen