453 quotes found
“Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.”
“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
“You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'...”
“We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.Pride? Catelyn snapped. His mocking tone and easy manner made her angry. Arrogance, some might call it. Arrogance and avarice and lust ...”
“My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.”
“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of pe...”
“A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.”
“Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.”
“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projec...”
“It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rat...”
“False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.”
“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”
“Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.”
“Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.”
“I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.”
“Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful even if the surface is ugly. Truthful is he who says what is true even if the truth is ugly. Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior wi...”
“Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more.”
“One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.”
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to cal...”
“When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.”
