Humanities Quotes

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

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. - J. Irwin Miller

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

Operating costs will go into humanities in variety of ways, [They will go to] replacing the program in Italy, raising graduate student stipends in the humanities in particular and also the social studies. - Dean Falk

In writing-intensive courses in the humanities, which tend to be smaller, many instructors require rough drafts or make students rewrite essays that earn lower than a C-. Final grades in those courses may tend to be slightly higher than in larger lecture-type courses, ... That doesn't mean that the grade is inflated, just that the instructor had more time to devote to working with the student. - Colleen Kennedy

I'm really excited. It's a real seal of approval to have a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. - Mark Peterson

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities. - Sue Grafton

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