Quotes About Intellectual Arrogance

#1. If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Because without music there can't be any dreams, and without dreams there can't be any fairy tales, and without fairy tales there can't be any courage, and without courage no one would be able to bear any sorrows, and

Fredrik Backman

#3. Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has remained hidden from the eyes of others;

Nikolai Gogol

#4. The arrogance of the intellectual. The delusion that we have more balls in the brain to juggle than most people.

David Cronenberg

#5. How could he live never knowing what it would be like to hold her close and sleep with her the whole night through?

Vonda Sinclair

#6. Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

Bruce Lee

#7. If loving the written word is wrong ... I don't want to be right!

Junnita Jackson

#8. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Criss Jami

#9. This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

Wynton Marsalis

#10. Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.

Michael Monroe

#12. If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with nothing. By running away at least she would have the joy of knowing she was missed.

Simon Van Booy

#14. Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play - work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.

Mark Edmundson

#15. I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

Tea Leoni

#16. My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

Hugh Howey

#17. Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

Dalai Lama

#18. Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

Napoleon Hill

#19. You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran