453 quotes found
“Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.”
“Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.”
“All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.”
“Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.”
“Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.”
“Never mistake arrogance for intellect.”
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.”
“You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.”
“My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if theres one thing in my life that I dont understand yet I all...”
“Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.”
“Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how a...”
“We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis”
“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a m...”
“Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.”
“I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.”
“I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.”
“I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect.”
“Do you wish to speak in Provenal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provenal."Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.”
“Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.”
“Pride is the mother of arrogance.”
