Body Quote by Sidney Hook

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

— Sidney Hook

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

— Sidney Hook

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

— Sidney Hook

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out…

— Sidney Hook

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

— Sidney Hook

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

— Sidney Hook

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

— Sidney Hook

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and…

— Sidney Hook

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

— Sidney Hook

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

— Sidney Hook

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

— Sidney Hook