453 quotes found
“There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.”
“I love it when you stare at me but my arrogance is entirely your fault.”
“Insecurity takes on various disguises. Cockiness and arrogance are among the most common.”
“Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the realit...”
“The attitude that psychologists call inflation and the traditional lore of Cabalistic magic, borrowing a term from religion, calls spiritual pride is one of the most serious dangers of this work.Th...”
“The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.”
“Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.”
“Arrogance is believing only you're Right, Ignorance is believing only you're Wrong. Be Neither!”
“Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.”
“If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was false, the best thing he could say is that it was interesting.”
“Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.”
“She's not tsundere. She's just an unpleasant woman.”
“A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.”
“Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.”
“Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of except self?”
“At his request--a Custer request was a command impossible to refuse--I produced a series of prints for the Centennial Expedition at Philadelphia: the general with Bloody Knife, his favorite Indian ...”
“You're so arrogant, you're almost macho.”
“All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!”
“One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.”
“Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both Go...”
