There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.