black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

Abraham Flexner

Related Topics

Empathy Extremist Keep Liberty Overlook Play Society

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Alike Cow Dark Look Mathematician
No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Choice Civilization Enough Nation Our Pay Rich
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Act Dolve Math Motivational Problem Science
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Collect Evaluate Fact Locked Patient Student
As to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Accident Designed Established Institution Object Personnel Promote Sex
As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Cared never Question Raised Utility
Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Curiosity Deflected Devoted Institution Learning
You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Compliment Friend Honest Last Lost Meal True
At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Absorbed Career Curiosity Interested Period Science Unmatched
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Billion Dollar Government Greater Permit Treaty United States War
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

America Characteristic Leaning Noblest Race Strongly
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Live Sense Testify World
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Borrowed Education Largely Money Nation Peace
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Characteristic Curiosity Oustanding Passion Probably Thinking Useful
There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Best Knowledge Man Teacher Teaching
The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

Discussion End Fundamentally Progress Spearhead Time Wrong

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0