Liberal Arts Quotes - Page 2

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

  Matt Taibbi

  Art, Educational, East

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• I'm a liberal arts junkie.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Art, Junkie

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• It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define such a thing, surely dwells as much in the concrete and taxi cabs as it does in the rivers, lakes, and mountains. Grace, I realized, is neither time nor place dependent. All we need is the right soundtrack.

  Josh Radnor

  Taxi Cabs, Rivers, Lakes

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• 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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Music, Encouragement, Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

  Jillian Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• 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.

  Edward H. Levi

  Art, Law, Use

  Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Art, Home, Figures

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• I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

  Sloane Crosley

  Art, School, Good Day

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• Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Garden, Design

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.291, e-artnow

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• I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.

  Steve Case

  Education, Art, Thinking

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• 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.

  Edward H. Levi

  Art, College, Giving

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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

  Felix Rohatyn

  Art, Skepticism, Needed

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• We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.

  Thomas Friedman

  Art, Technology, Average

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

  David Foster

  Art, Real, Bullshit

  "David Foster Wallace's Legendary Graduation Speech Is Now An Awesome Short Film". "This Is Water" Speech at Kenyon College, www.businessinsider.com. 2005.

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• Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Music, Country, Art

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• We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Art, Philosophy

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I have not been able to give a concrete answer to the question of how the nations of Asia can create their own unique liberal arts traditions that are not simply the importation of a Western model. The question is a critical one and the answer must come from Asian universities themselves.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Art, Unique, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Jeff Dunham

  Art, Communication, Math

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

  Robert P. George

  Art, Self, Promise

  Robert P. George (2016). “Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Art, Real, Nice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Running, Art, Book

  Eugene J. McCarthy (1987). “Up'til Now: A Memoria”, Harcourt

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• 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.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Art, New York, Parent

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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

  John Wesley

  Art, College, Clue

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• Eighty-three percent of our students are Pell Grant-eligible, which means, by and large, that their families have a dysfunctional relationship with wealth and with work. So if you have never been in an environment where you have come to understand the expectations of a career, because all you have ever seen is people be underemployed or unemployed, then how are you going to learn that? Our students are getting two forms of education. They're getting a rigorous liberal arts training, and they're also getting real world work experience.

  Michael Sorrell

  Art, Real, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  O.R. Melling

  Art, Canada, Degrees

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