Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

- Stanley Fish

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffectiv…

- Stanley Fish

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

- Stanley Fish

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

- Stanley Fish

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

- Stanley Fish

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

- Stanley Fish

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hour…

- Stanley Fish

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

- Stanley Fish

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the…

- Stanley Fish