Sophistication Quotes

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

Western "freedom" is a sophisticated form of control.

Sophistication is a thing of the mind not of worldly appearance.