Intellectualism Quote by Michael Perry

“True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”

— Epictetus

“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not…

— John Kennedy Toole

“It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.”

— Raymond E. Feist

“You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having…

— Nicholas Mosley

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Small-minded fools are everywhere and those with the courage to be who they are often have to suffer them.”

— Kristen Ashley