When policy makers talk about higher education, from the president all the way down, they talk exclusively in terms of math and science. Journalists and pundits—some of whom were humanities majors and none of whom are nurses or engineers—never tire of lecturing the young about the necessity of thinking prudently when choosing a course of study, the naïveté of wanting to learn things just because you’re curious about them.
~ William Deresiewicz
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it, that we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
~ Will Rogers
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By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, “Providence”.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is no inquiry which is not finally reducible to a question of numbers.
~ Auguste Comte
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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