"Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love."

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Source : Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.75

Henry Taylor

#Ambition Quotes #Self Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
“The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.”
“I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.”
“I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.”

Source : Leanna Renee Hieber (2011). “Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul”, p.52, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard . . . . You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.”

Source : Roger B. Swain (1983). “Field days: journal of an itinerant biologist”, Macmillan Reference USA
“If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.”
“I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.”
“Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what”

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