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“Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.”

Needs Mind Facts Challenges Education Creative Information Source Skills Conviction Educated Assumption Willingness Skepticism Outlook New Experiences Spaciousness Educated Mind

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.”

World Humans Changed Source Circumstances Morality Invention Evolve Assumption Human Inventions

Book:How Now Shall We Live?

Source: How Now Shall We Live?

“It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.”

Ifs Humans Kind Seems Running Individual Creative Source Chiefs Intimate Assumption Human Happiness Interpersonal Interpersonal Relationship

Book:Solitude a Return to the Self

Source: Solitude a Return to the Self

“The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.”

“Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.”

Ideas Lines One Thing Source Bases Aids Assumption Mutual Adam Medieval Persia Mutual Aid

Author:David Graeber