'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of…

Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability…

— Octave Mirbeau

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong…

— Mark Twain

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at…

— Mark Twain

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts, by the…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“I raise an eyebrow, working to achieve the right tone of intellectual superiority. “If you've never read the Twilight books or the Hunger Games…

— Anne Eliot

“McNamara’s whiz kids were smart. But they had almost no experience in either war or weaponry, and were not necessarily an able substitute for…

— C.J. Chivers

“There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior academic credentials made the most critical of decisions…

— David Halberstam

“Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.”

— Lolah Runda

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson

“Financial crises—and most other failures of prediction—stem from this false sense of confidence.”

— Nate Silver

We live in a world where everyone has such a false sense of security and confidence hiding behind a computer screen.

— Matt Rife

A false sense of security can distract you from what Gods plan is for you.

— Anonymous

Don't get into this false sense that you are an individual when you're on Facebook. No. You're Not. You're a pawn in their scheme.

— Matt Drudge