Top 1200 Intellectual Superiority Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always ?Lennox should react, not think?. But that?s nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

I love it when people try to manufacture an injustice out of a position of clear superiority.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

The problem, once again, as in all sciences is the attitude of the mind that is dealing with whatever field. The problem is not philosophy but the lack of intellectual humility. It is when reason becomes arrogant that we lose track. But intellectual humility with science: this is spirituality - this is the way we are with God. So we should not be scared and we must reconcile ourselves.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is an immature, superficial faith. People who simply ride the roller coaster of emotional experience are cheating themselves out of a deeper and richer Christian faith by neglecting the intellectual side of that faith.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks now. There are people who are leaving the universities and working for the government or in think tanks, simply looking for freedom.

How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.

Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.

George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an American every day, ordinary everyman, and as a result of that, played up his fumbling speech because it signified that he was a good guy. That is deeply and profoundly anti-intellectual.