A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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