"Who can endure a doctrine which would..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
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“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).”
“Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.”
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“The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.”
“I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.”
“I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.”