Quotes about Pretentiousness

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I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent — Criss Jami, Killosophy
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to s — Criss Jami, Killosophy
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists. — Criss Jami, Healology
If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired his — Criss Jami
lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or m — Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain. — T.J. Kirk
July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always have realized that I — Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals
Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody. — Criss Jami, Healology
Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into acti — Criss Jami, Killosophy
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate t — Criss Jami, Healology
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they — Tiffany Madison
Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at — Criss Jami, Killosophy
I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding — Criss Jami, Healology
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful. — Criss Jami, Healology
Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to — Anthon St. Maarten
don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t be dull and bor — Charles Bukowski, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way