"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-Walter Lippmann
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"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.“
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"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."
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"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
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"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
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"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
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-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
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