Intellectual Quotes — Page 38

Writer

“Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.”

Men Trying Intellectual

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

“I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.”

Listening Intellectual Degenerates

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

“The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”

Facts Intellectual Truth Is

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

“Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.”

Ignorance Intellectual Vaccines

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Margaret Thatcher

Politician

“[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.”

Home Three Intellectual

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Hedrick Smith

Journalist

“One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.”

Problem Intellectual Retirement

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.”

Comedy Intellectual Moral

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.”

Men Intellectual Intelligence

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.”

Fear Intellectual Examination

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Lennox Lewis

Professional Boxer

“There were different heroes with different images. There was Mike Tyson, the animal, there was Evander Holyfield, the devout, the priest. And there was me, the thinker, the intellectual boxer. So there was something for every fan, if you like. The public could always identify with one of us.”

Animal Hero Intellectual

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