Top 1200 Liberal Arts Quotes & Sayings

I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

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

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy.

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

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

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.

I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to the right. "Liberal" means the "guardians of the gates". So the New York Times is "liberal" by, what's called, the standards of political discourse, New York Times is liberal, CBS is liberal. I don't disagree. I think they're moderately critical at the fringes. They're not totally subordinate to power, but they are very strict in how far you can go. And in fact, their liberalism serves an extremely important function in supporting power.

There's a lot to be said for an American-style liberal-arts education, which prevents young people from professionalizing right away.

I went to NYU to study liberal arts.

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.

A degree in Liberal Arts has long been considered the most adaptable, with humanitarian and societal studies that prepare graduates to enter a wide variety of careers.

I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education.

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

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.

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

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I majored in drama and theater arts at Columbia and was always in acting studio, but that was a liberal arts degree, not a bachelor of arts degree, so I didn't have a traditional conservatory training. There was a lot of reading and a lot of writing involved, and only about 30 percent of my classes were directly theater-related.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

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.

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

Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies."

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

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

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

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

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

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

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

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.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

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.

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.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who covers police stations, covers county courts, brought up that way, has to have a degree of humanity that people who do not have that exposure don't have, and some people interpret that to be liberal. It's not a liberal, it's humanitarian and that's a vastly different thing.

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 SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

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 arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.

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.

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

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

Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.

The people who fund the arts, provide the arts, and research the arts have all produced a consensus about the value of what they do, which hardly anyone challenges. But do the numbers add up? For all the claims made about the arts, how accurate are they?

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

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

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I'm a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.

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.

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

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

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.