453 quotes found
“One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.”
“All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a grea...”
“To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.”
“Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.”
“Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.”
“The most crucial truths are always rejected before they're accepted. " he says gazing out of space."It's one of our greatest human flaws: arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the ...”
“He seemed like the type that kept people at arm's length, maybe out of arrogance or maybe from personal choice- either way, I wanted to know him so that those eyes were narrowed and focused solely ...”
“If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.”
“A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.”
“Arrogance is the last thing to die”
“Confirming what you see as reality...is a true sign of your arrogance.”
“For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?”
“Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.”
“The only sin is pride.”
“Ineptitude and arrogance never mix or match”
“The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, theres arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful a...”
“There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a nave and arrogant new one.”
“... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.”
“Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.”
“How can a mans candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kindimpetuous, arm-blooded, leoni...”
