Leslie Stephen on Knowledge
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Leslie Stephen, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Leslie Stephen, entry #198760: "If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."
Attributed to Leslie Stephen, entry #98401: "Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season."
3 Quotes by Leslie Stephen on Knowledge
"If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."
"Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season."
"Philistine – a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species."