"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

Age, Reason, University

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"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'"

Richard Dean Anderson, American Actor

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age."

Malcolm Boyd, American Clergyman

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"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

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"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."

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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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"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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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."

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"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."

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"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."

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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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"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."

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