Liberal Arts Quotes

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

  Steve Jobs

  Education, Art, Technology

  "Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple?" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. August 29, 2011.

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• It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Art, Book

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.100, Princeton University Press

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• The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, College, Thinking

  "Einstein: His Life and Times". Book by Philipp Frank (p. 185), 1947.

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

  Barbara M. White

  Education, Art, Exercise

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• 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.

  Oliver DeMille

  Art, Communication, Reading

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Technology, Ipads

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Art, Independent, Opportunity

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• For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

  Derek Bok

  Art, College, May

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

  Steve Case

  Art, Thinking, Important

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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Children, Home

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• 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.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Country, Art, Half

  Joyce Carol Oates' address to graduating class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, May 28, 2006.

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.117, Stanford University Press

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

  Ovid

  Art, Character, Faithful

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1441, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Training, Foundation

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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• 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

  David Hume

  Art, Honesty, Science

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• Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.

  George Washington

  Art, Real, Hero

  George Washington, Fred Anderson, Philander D. Chase (2004). “George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War”, p.92, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal arts and humanities have fallen out of favor in a culture that equates education with training.

  Henry Giroux

  Art, People, Humanity

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

  Henry Giroux

  Art, Offering, People

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• 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.

  Conan O'Brien

  Art, Sorry, Kids

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

  Marva Collins

  Dog, Art, Cat

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• I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

  Mike White

  Art, School, Thinking

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• Business schools do most things very well. They are just not comprehensive and what they miss are things like culture and creativity and a certain kind of pattern recognition that comes easily to people trained in the liberal arts.

  Grant David McCracken

  Art, Creativity, School

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Art, Freedom, Philosophical

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

  Josh Radnor

  Quiet, What You Love

  "Josh Radnor and Elizabeth Olsen Talk About Their Roles in Liberal Arts". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. September 11, 2012.

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• 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.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Art, Literature, Needs

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