“(...) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.”
“Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.”
“I think your husband has that something about him that defines honor very narrowly. I fear he is the stuff of which martyrs are made." (Tom Lasser, p. 358)”
“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.”
“Listening is a very rare skill, and in these noisy times, it is more and more valuable.”
“doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct”