Quotes by Eliot, George

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soo >>

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of d >>

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that o >>

Quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certa >>

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. >>

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeede >>

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Eliot, George