Art Quote by T.J. Kirk

“Being pretentious is rarely harmful to anyone. Accusing others of it is. You can use the word “pretentious” as a weapon with which to…

— Dan Fox

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

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.”

— Raymond Chandler

“People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its…

— Joan Vass

“Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down to the…

— Michael Perry

“For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which…

— George Eliot

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

“Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.”

— Stan Slap

“Dismiss any thought that leads to discouragement.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“His gibberish sounds intellectual enough to make some people feel like agreeing with him makes them look smart.”

— Aaron J. Ethridge

“I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don’t come off like a complete prick.”

— Krista Ritchie

“Set aside your repertoire of objections and own 100 percent of your focus.”

— Lorii Myers