“School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.” SchoolResultsEducationAcceptingTeachingEvidenceBuiltInstitutionsContraryDespiteOverwhelmingAxioms Book:The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays
“Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.” PeopleMistakeResponsibilityAcceptingDemocracyTreeHonestyDemandInstitutionsDemocraticFloweringTinkeringFlowering Trees Author:Bill Vaughan
“We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt.” PeopleMeanLittlesDifferentValuesViewsAcceptingInstitutionsChickensAdaptability Author:Robert Reischauer
“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.” FirstsMayEndsShowsChristianFormReligionThreeChurchAcceptingChristianityCenturyThirdsCatholicInstitutionsStructureComplexesScriptureContemporaryOrthodoxCreedsDiverseTestamentPremisesNew TestamentProtestantsChristian ChurchCanonApostolicUnanimity Author:Elaine Pagels
“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.” PeopleMeanEndsPhilosophyHappensCertainValuesInterestAcceptingParticularNormalRelationInstitutionsUsualNoticing Author:Georges Canguilhem
“Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.” GovernmentResponsibilityLeaderAcceptingRolesPoliticianCrisisInstitutionsBlindFinancialAgencyOfficialsRatingRegulatorsGovernment OfficialsSpeculatorsFinancial Institutions Author:Seth Klarman
“I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one.” WayBelieveI CanJobsI BelieveEnjoyGoalAcceptingAchieveConditionsInstitutionsNoble Author:Sri Mulyani Indrawati
“You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.” IfsJusticeAcceptingInstitutions Author:Alex Gibney