"Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves."

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Source : CHARLES HODGE (1873). “SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.”, p.48

Charles Hodge

#Teacher Quotes #Believe Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do anything like that. I think if I had been in touch with people earlier, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that. It would have been too bizarre.”
“Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species ***** sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."”
“Let's create, not destroy. Let's believe and not doubt.”
“I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.”
“Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.”
“Where there is power, there is resistance.”

Source : Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.382, MIT Press
“Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.”
“No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.”

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