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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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"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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"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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"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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"But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer."

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"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."
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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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"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
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"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
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"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?"
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"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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