Top 1200 Intellectual Superiority Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.

We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of his character could produce such beauty.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

Our founders built a new order atop specifically European intellectual traditions.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

Any movement that has been successful in this country for Black liberation has included old and young, men and women, and people not of color that understand their superiority complex, that understand White supremacy, and that internalize that, sort that out, and heal from that in order that they might help, because there are some people of color that are not on our side.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of a world perspective. There is an unconscious provincialism, and it can develop into an unconscious superiority complex just as a Negro develops an unconscious inferiority complex.

The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.