Top 1200 Intellectual Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

I am a mum - I want to give my kids confidence, but limit it because no one wants arrogance.

A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance to blackness that whiteness is able to throw up. I engage in a lot of intellectual combat with supremacists and with the predicate of white supremacy and white indifference to black identity, and brown and red and yellow identity too, for that matter.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much better than going at it all frontally. But you can't conjure it in an intellectual way; it has to come out of another engagement, a more intuitive engagement. Revision is where the intellectual, analytical work happens. At least for me.

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

The U.S.A. have a 'football arrogance,' which means winning is in their DNA - nothing else is good enough.

I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite "good day." If I do like it, I will say: "Sit down; stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world."

I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

What am I missing to be the best in the world? Honestly, nothing in terms of quality, just consistency, and that's not arrogance.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.