Oscar Wilde Quotes, Intellectual Quotes, Listening Quotes

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.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

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

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My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

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These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

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[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.

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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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