453 quotes found
“I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.”
“Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.”
“Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.”
“There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.”
“Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.”
“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefo...”
“You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is...”
“Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture an...”
“All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.”
“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).”
“In the Blue Room, Cora Cash was trying to concentrate on her book. Cora found most novels hard to sympathise with -- all those plain governesses -- but this one had much to recommend it. The heroin...”
“The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.”
“Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.”
“Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.”
“The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.”
“You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.”
“Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.”
“The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.”
“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. Its the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that c...”
“The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of t...”
