Mark Twain Quotes

Most people are not intellectuals — a fact that intellectuals have terrible trouble coming to terms with.

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.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

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

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

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

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

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

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Anything that I don't understand or can't do is stupid.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

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.