Top 1200 Intellectual Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other institutions whose decisions he wants to control and override? But he can talk glibly about growing the economy. Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

It's great finding a comic book character that doesn't care about following traditional comic book rules by breaking the fourth wall and being explicit about everything. This gives Deadpool the arrogance which you just have to love.

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Everyone knows about Amitabh Bachchan being a legendary actor, and I had this sense of arrogance that I can make him do what I want. But what he did on locations completely blew me away. I realised that I understand the quality of performances even more after seeing him perform.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

I'm kind of a purist and I actually just want to be a good player, with that said though... I probably should get a little more involved in that as that's what people are doing and making great songs out of their computer so it's kind of like, at what point does purist become arrogance?

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it's mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn't going to beat you, and that translates to the court.

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps.

I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.