Arrogance Quote by Anonymous

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely…

— Samuel Johnson

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition…

— Aristotle

Young people have been ill-educated, mis-educated, propagandized. I see it in everything I read written by young people. You can spot it a mile…

— Rush Limbaugh

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia…

— Robertson Davies

“What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.”

— Suzanne Collins

“...young people know very little about themselves and their abilities. When the day comes on which they discover their real strong points and their…

— Hugo Munsterberg

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

— H. L. Mencken

“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the…

— John Bagot Glubb

“What used to be a jocular and usually benign ridicule of intellect and formal training has turned into a malign resentment of the intellectual…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a…

— Karen Horney

“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the…

— Criss Jami

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of…

— Bertrand Russell