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

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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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