453 quotes found
“You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.”
“Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.”
“Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is abso...”
“I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.”
“It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who s...”
“He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.”
“Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.”
“It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.”
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may ...”
“My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.”
“Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now ...”
“Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.”
“When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.”
“Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.”
“It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often ...”
“Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.”
“...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.”
“Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, Confidence is knowing no one is above you.”
“The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedie...”
“Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up.”
