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Top 25 Sidney Hook Quotes (2025 Update)

Sidney Hook Quote: “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”

1. “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”

— Sidney Hook

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Sidney Hook Quote: “Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.”

2. “Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.”

3. “Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “To silence criticism is to silence freedom.”

4. “To silence criticism is to silence freedom.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.”

5. “If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”

6. “Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.”

7. “In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.”

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

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.”

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

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.”

10. “Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “The next time anyone asks you “What is Bertrand Russell’s philosophy?” the correct answer is “What year, please?””

11. “The next time anyone asks you “What is Bertrand Russell’s philosophy?” the correct answer is “What year, please?””

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.”

12. “Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.”

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

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Before impugning an opponent’s motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.”

14. “Before impugning an opponent’s motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.”

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

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.”

16. “Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.”

17. “Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.”

18. “I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.”

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

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.”

20. “A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.”

21. “Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.”

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

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.”

23. “No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.”

24. “Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.”

25. “Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.”

26. “The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.”

— Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook Quote: “To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.”

27. “To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.”

— Sidney Hook

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