True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
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Allan Bloom
It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused. Intolerance and cruelty have occurred in the name of truth. To that extent people are afraid when someone says, "This is the truth",...
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Pope Benedict XVI
Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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Emil M. Cioran
The highest result of education is tolerance
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Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
More Quotes By Allan Bloom
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers..of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few,...
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Education is the movement from darkness to light
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.
