“Most people think only once in their lives, usually when they are at college. After that, their minds are made up, and their decisions, utterances are endless repetition of views that have in the meantime become obsolete, outworn, unsound. This applies to politics, scholarship, the arts as well as social service. Views, just as leaves, are bound to whither, because the world is in flux. But so many of us would rather be faithful to outworn views that to undergo the strain of re-examination and revision. Indeed, intellectual senility sets in long before physical infirmity. A human being must be valued by how many times he is able to see the world from a new perspective.”
Abraham Heschel in Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity (20)
(excerpted from recreativespace.tumblr.com)
Heather Choate Davis 