Top 1200 Intellectual Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money.

For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.

I love going on Chris Hayes' show. It probably is my favorite because of the intensity of the intellectual combat.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a political culture of hyper-punitiveness has become normalized. Revealing itself in a blatant display of unbridled arrogance and power, it is unchecked by any sense of either conscience or morality.

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

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

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

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

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

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

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

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

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

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

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

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you can, you want to try to do something that people haven't done before and give people something that they haven't seen.

I don't have the Big Idea. I don't have the arrogance to even want to have the Big Idea. But I believe the physics of resisting power is as old as the physics of accumulating power. That's what keeps the balance in the universe... the refusal to obey.

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

The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.

Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

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

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

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

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

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.