When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess … - Henry Thomas Buckle

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Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

Henry Thomas Buckle

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

Class, Intellectual, Benefits, Former, Classes, Benefit

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Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

Men, Ideas, Average, Lowest, Talking

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

Art, Events, Foresee, Phenomena, Science

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Political, Preparation, Society, Crime, Criminal

The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

Enemy, Errors, Inertness, Knowledge, Matter, May

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

Discover, Discovery, Doubt, Firsts, Process

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I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic insider: school loyalty, conformity to the procedure, and readiness to obey by the school-endorsed criteria of cohesion and consistency.

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