Top 1200 Intellectual Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

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.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

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.

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.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance.

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.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

I think there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Arrogance cometh before reality.

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.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

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.

French arrogance is no longer in fashion in Italy.

I am shy. People misconstrue it as arrogance.

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.

It's a fine line between self-assuredness and arrogance.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

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.

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

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.

The taint of arrogance will I not know.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

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!

The arrogance of power must be undermined.

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.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

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.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

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.