Top 1200 Intellectual Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I treat everyone equally whether you are an intellectual, a layman or an auto driver.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

We have a duty as the state to protect our economy... We are for the protection of intellectual property.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

I don't think German films have to be heavy or intellectual the way they sometimes used to be.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.