Sidney Hook Quotes (14 Quotes)

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

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

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil

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

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

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

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

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

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

Where an intelligent grasp of principles requires a knowledge of mathematics, its fundamental ideas should be presented in such a way that students carry away the sense of mathematics not only as a tool for the solution of problems but as a study of types of order, system, and language.

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.

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

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.