Browsing Quotes With Tag: education (128)
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Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.
Speaker: Salman RushdiePosted: 14 Feb 2015 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Such imaginary constructs are of course what scientists refer to as “models,” and there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with them. Actually I think a fair case can be made that we cannot think without them. The problem with such models — at least, it always seems to happen when we model something called “the market” — is that, once created, we have a tendency to treat them as objective realities, or even fall down before them and start worshiping them as gods. “We must obey the dictates of the market!”
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer which is wrong.
Speaker: H.L. MenkenPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.
Speaker: L. Frank BaumPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Speaker: Lao TzeSource: The Tao of PoohPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The wise are not learned. The learned are not wise.
Speaker: Lao TzeSource: The Tao of PoohPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Speaker: John von NeumannPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only one.
Speaker: George R.R. MartinPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Speaker: Theodore RooseveltPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Through doubting we question, and through questioning we perceive the truth.
Speaker: Peter AbelardPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Dostoevsky suggested that one sacred memory from childhood was, perhaps, the best education.
I say to you that one plausible, romantic theory about humanity is perhaps the best prize you can take away from a university.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
None of us knows God until someone introduces us.
Speaker: "Pi Patel"Source: the Life of PiPosted: 04 Mar 2014 at 10:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks but in how it thinks.
Speaker: Christopher HitchensSource: Letters to a Young ContrarianPosted: 12 Jan 2014 at 3:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Speaker: Nelson MandelaPosted: 06 Dec 2013 at 7:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
Speaker: Ursula K Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairPosted: 14 Aug 2012 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trick is to promote actual freedom – not just by giving people lots of choices (though that can help) but also by putting people in a good position to choose what would be best.
Source: NudgePosted: 06 Aug 2011 at 11:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you think education is expensive, just try ignorance.
Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!