Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
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Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
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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.
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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
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