"It is always incorrect to assume you can……" — Stanley Fish
"It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories."
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17 Quotes by Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry.…
- The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'
- A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to…
- The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
- The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead…
- This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be…
- No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.
- Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and…
- Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and…
- Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
- I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.
- In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive,…