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Every clarification breeds new questions.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a read more
There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a question
Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand read more
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, read more
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different read more
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
