Liberal Learning Quotes

#1. He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

H.W. Brands

#2. Liberal learning is that which underlies, that which gives purpose and direction to practical skills. It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery.

Denham Sutcliffe

#3. Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#4. Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#5. But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

James Weldon Johnson

#6. Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

James V. Schall

#7. The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Charles William Eliot

#8. Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

Hollis Stacy

#9. a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.

William Gibson

#10. One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.

Viola Davis

#11. [To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

Dorothy Parker

#12. Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Matthew Henry

#13. Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

John George Nicolay

#14. A liberal education forms ... a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#15. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Albert Einstein

#16. I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

David Nicholls

#17. Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

Eduardo Galeano

#18. The way his angry eyes assessed me alone could have made me cum, like I was a piece of fuck meat, good for nothing more than taking his spunk.

Asia Marquis

#19. It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Christopher Earle

#20. I read like fiends smoke crack

Duane Swierczynski

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.

Michael S. Roth

#24. ...He untied her robe and parted it. She heard his intake of breath... before he murmured, "Beautiful."
"You probably say that to all the women you rescue from the sea," she said.

Terry Spear