Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
SYDNEY J. HARRISIf you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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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 time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness-and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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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.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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