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Allan Bloom

"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

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"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

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Donna Grant

"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."

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Donna Grant

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

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"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."

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"Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers."

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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."

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"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."

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"I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered."

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Donna Grant

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

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"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."

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"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."

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"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."
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"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."
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