Richard Hofstadter quote: "The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination."

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing n...
RICHARD HOFSTADTER

Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic a...
RICHARD HOFSTADTER

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most o...
RICHARD HOFSTADTER

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarant...
RICHARD HOFSTADTER

To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that i...
RICHARD HOFSTADTER

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded prof...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until ...
ELBERT HOFSTADTER

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels i...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mos...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the c...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it ...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

One could probably liken the task of improvising a six-part fugue to the playing of sixty simultaneo...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

Since most women are kind of different from the top-model image, there is a constant losing battle o...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task
which it is perform...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

A computer program can modify itself but it cannot violate its own instructions — it can at best c...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us die...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things t...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep insi...
DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyon...
DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter...
DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER

[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH

Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON

God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT

Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON

I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA

The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL

On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL

...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL

It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL

When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL

the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL

This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL

Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL

The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL

Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL

These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL

When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL

MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL

...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN

As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER

Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY

One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH

You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and...
RICHARD SIMMONS

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court...
RICHARD SIMMONS

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,...
RICHARD DAWKINS

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to ...
RICHARD BRANSON

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around i...
RICHARD WAGNER

I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
RICHARD SHELBY

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing...
RICHARD BRANSON

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS

In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there...
RICHARD BRANSON

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into wo...
RICHARD ENGEL

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It's on a rocky hill ov...
RICHARD BRANSON

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort ...
RICHARD LOUV

Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial ...
RICHARD CORLISS

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discour...
RICHARD DAWKINS

My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.'...
RICHARD HAMMOND

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
LITTLE RICHARD

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is ...
RICHARD SAUNDERS

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature canno...
RICHARD FEYNMAN

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of...
RICHARD ARMITAGE

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever si...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about lon...
RICHARD SCHIFF

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.
RICHARD NEY

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of...
RICHARD POWERS

Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
RICHARD FRANCK

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness a...
RICHARD HALLOWAY

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel b...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
RICHARD RUSSO

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD

To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the bol...
RICHARD JEFFERIES

Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a ...
RICHARD PRESTON

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would ...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...
RICHARD SELZER

This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon t...
RICHARD KINDER

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is m...
RICHARD HOVEY

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
RICHARD OWEN

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of som...
RICHARD POWERS

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH

We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min...
RICHARD CORLISS

A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a conti...
RICHARD MITCHELL

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone s...
RICHARD MITCHELL

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as ...
RICHARD MITCHELL

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
RICHARD MCKENNA

Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in...
RICHARD PAYMENT

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibil...
RICHARD ROHR

No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 ...
RICHARD CORLISS

I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

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Richard Hofstadter

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Richard Hofstadter

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