Top 31 Quotes About Intelligence And Arrogance
#1. Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. - Kinky Friedman
Ray Palla
#2. You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It's not their fault they want to kick you and it's certainly not yours. It's just the way things are. Sometimes you need to hear the worst, so you have no fear in what you do and learn to work around the what-have-you.
Initially NO
#3. At night, forgotten words tried to reach me. I listened with my skin. Words tore my skin off, crept inside me, and nestled down. I was a mass of wounds. When I opened my mouth in front of the mirror, beasts lay asleep in my throat; they'd made it their home.
Margarita Karapanou
#4. Intelligence is the unlimited ability to conceive of concepts, and arrogance is the belief that one "knows" anything.
Monk E. Mind
#5. Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.
Jason Mraz
#7. Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.
Tom Clancy
#8. Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?
Lynn Margulis
#9. When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?
David Maister
#10. Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
Jean De La Bruyere
#11. It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.
Criss Jami
#12. Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
Richard Baxter
#13. It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past
Ken Burns
#14. From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.
Nevada Barr
#15. Never mistake arrogance for intellect.
D.B. Harrop
#16. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#17. I'm going to marry that boy someday. Not tomorrow, not next year, but someday. He's my forever. "It's about time," he says as I climb into the
Lisa De Jong
#18. I think the doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things: arrogance or not intelligence.
Rafael Nadal
#19. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Criss Jami
#20. Im not a baker so im not going to sugar coat it.
Jamie Magee
#21. They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
Rush Limbaugh
#22. The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#23. I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.
John Catsimatidis
#24. The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.
Alain Badiou
#25. To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
Richard Leakey
#26. Before I met the Jesuits, I'd never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.
Pat Conroy
#27. When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.
Travis Tritt
#28. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
Thomas Jefferson
#29. True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm, and intelligence
Slavoj Zizek
#30. Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
George Meredith
#31. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.
Criss Jami
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