Intellectual Pride Quotes

• Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

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  Alexis Carrel

  Believe   Pride   Thinking  

  "Saiva Siddhanta" by Saiva Siddhanta Mahasamajam, volume 21, p. 59, 1986.

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• If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

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  Mother Teresa

  Pride   Billiards   Discouraged  

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.30, New World Library

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

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  David Cross

  Pride   Gay   Redneck  

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all.

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  Barbara Smoker

  Atheist   Pride   Feet  

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• I was in the right place at the right time.

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  Mel Allen

  Photography   Perseverance   Good Luck  

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• I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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  Calvin Harris

  Good Luck   Ohio   Mcdonalds  

  "Calvin Harris Out-Earns Jay Z, Toby Keith As World’s Highest Paid DJ" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

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  Mother Teresa

  Heart   Pride   Simple  

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• The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise   Powerful   Pride  

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.303, Library of Alexandria

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