A Quote by Walter Bagehot

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

Walter Bagehot

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Walter Bagehot
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February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

Rahul Dravid

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Thomas Mann

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

Jean Houston

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

Herman Melville

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

R. C. Sproul

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Sarah Bernhardt

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

George Mikes

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

Jonathan Dimbleby

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

Antonio Tabucchi

Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.

Kate McKinnon

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

Paul Krassner

Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.

Nick Offerman

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

Bernardino Ramazzini

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Arianna Huffington

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