"Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist."

-- Robert M. Hutchins

#Teaching Quotes #Inquiry Quotes #Discussion Quotes

“The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.”
“Youâ€™re always working at the margin of what you donâ€™t understand, thatâ€™s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.”
“Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.”
“Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures...”
“To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.”
“Be able to laugh at difficulties.”
“Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.”
“There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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