37 Quotes by Sidney Hook

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.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

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

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

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.