To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.