453 quotes found
“He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.”
“Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to b...”
“Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.”
“If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.”
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”
“No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have ...”
“One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.”
“What causes all this?""Pride. What else?”
“Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.”
“Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.”
“His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.”
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snak...”
“But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.”
“No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.”
“Some things sound better if they don't come from you.”
“Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.”
“Arrogance doesn't have variety in shades.. Humility has umpteen.”
“Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phr...”
“The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.”
“Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.”
