Superior Knowledge Quotes

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

I tell people what to do, and so what? I am more qualified than the other board members, so my advice means more.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

That's more than you know about anything else then.

The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason.

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.

He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.

Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will provoke me - I know he will provoke me! And there are times when I simply refuse to be provoked. And the other times you have to use that superior knowledge to carry on at work without distraction, and don't allow yourself to be distracted. I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.