Liberal Arts

Famous quotes containing the words liberal arts, liberal and/or arts:

    “Barnard’s greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard’s responsibility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.”
    —Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)

    “Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
    And that which you did swear to keep for me,
    I will become as liberal as you,
    I’ll not deny him anything I have,
    No, not my body nor my husband’s bed.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I too have arts and sorceries;
    Illusion dwells forever with the wave.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)