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The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskri — Brent Weeks
Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also — Graham Austin-King, Fae - The Realm of Twilight
Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination b — Lynn Hoffman
So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty ma — Criss Jami
I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of — J. Rufus Fears, Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments — Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It is really very well f — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity. — Michael Bassey Johnson
No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big Red One and the — Miles Watson, A Story Never Told
I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a gre — Criss Jami
You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? — John Fowles, The Collector
You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to — Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition — Criss Jami, Healology
Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures y — Criss Jami, Healology
Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places — Marilynne Robinson, Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
Snob corrupted. — Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. — Dan Rather
Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disl — Criss Jami, Healology