Top 1200 Intellectual Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer to the product is breath-taking. When something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, there will be a great benefit to those who have taken a stance against genetically modified organisms.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

Hardik Patel and Kanhaiya Kumar are absolutely intellectual terrorists - they have been created.

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

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

Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

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

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the servility of the weak, low rapacity, ephemeral pleasure purchased by great effort, death preceded by long suffering, all belong to the animals as they do to men.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

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

I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.

The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

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

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.