"There is nothing that an intellectual less likes……" — Theodore Dalrymple

"There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy."

— Theodore Dalrymple

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23 Quotes by Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have…
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary…
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized…
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them…
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be…
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better.…
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest…
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children…
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining…

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More Change Quotes

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Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from… — Billie Joe Armstrong
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about… — Karen Armstrong
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in… — David Attenborough
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our… — David Attenborough
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also… — David Attenborough
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius

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