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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."
"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."
"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."
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"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."
"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."
"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
"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."
"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"
"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."
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