Top 1200 Intellectual Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.

A bit of arrogance is nice every now and then.

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer.

I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist.

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.

Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

When you have the arrogance, the confidence and you can't cook, then you're only going to look stupid.

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?