G. H. Hardy Quotes

I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.

They are not asking you in there for them to learn, contrary to what they're saying. That's not what leftists do. They're not asking you to come in and teach them anything. They want to browbeat you. They want to find out why you're so stupid. They want to find out what you're missing. They want to find out why their brilliance is not reaching and connecting to you. They don't think there's anything wrong with them. What's wrong is their reader base, and they want to figure out what's wrong with you.

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

… when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don’t happen to know it.

Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.

It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me, that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

... condescending SOBs

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a) he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't ; b) he has a high IQ, but they don't.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living.

I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.