453 quotes found
“Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.”
“Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”
“I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when Ive been saved from myself.”
“Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to ...”
“I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies.Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms,that was time when I lost my arrogance as human.”
“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.”
“Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!”
“The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.”
“Her skirt was nice, but she was wearing a dull-colored blouse that wasn't at all attractive. I'd have to remember to tell her not to wear it when she was with me if the two of us were going to get ...”
“Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed fundamental ...”
“Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.”
“Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.”
“The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.”
“Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.”
“Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.”
“How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?”
“Power of productivity is not in working but relaxing”
“A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.”
“Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratirams grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.”
“If its not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and Im interested in but dont yet know. Its when they explain things to me I know and they dont that the conversat...”
