I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science...

Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground....

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I’d write a check to buy it back.

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

I talk to you today about the blessed London battle, which came as a slap in the face to the tyrannical Crusader British arrogance. It is a sip from the glass that Muslims have been...

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.

Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others, always assuming they are second best, not enough. This is a painful realization...

Full moon is falling through the sky.Cranes fly through clouds.Wolves howl. I cannot find restBecause I am powerlessTo amend a broken world.Sima Zian added, “I love the man who wrote that, I told you before,...

Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you.” “Why?””Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and...

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up.

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...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

The Duke has decreed that the Castle is not cold.” The gentleman’s lips are almost blue from this lack of cold. “And the Duke is right and correct in this as in all things.”…some very...

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person’s mask.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

I didn’t know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.

He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren’t used to seeing the broader picture in small things.

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst whom M. de Stermaria adopted the manner one has in the buffet-car of...

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

Don’t mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she’s liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect...

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are...

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Don’t you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

Professors stare down from their podiums; that’s their insecurity.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.

When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday – because of a doctor’s arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are...

The blessed London attack was one which al-Qaida was honored to launch against the British Crusader’s arrogance and against the American Crusader aggression on the Islamic nation for 100 years,

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Stupidity mixed with arrogance mixed with anger mixed with adrenaline is a deadly combination. Just as deadly as adding fries and a soda and making it a combo meal.

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics...

The peacock’s plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!

The fighting in Palestine is a war between the (whole) Islamic nation and the world of arrogance, … Today, Palestinians are representing the Islamic nation against arrogance.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

We now have a two-party system that is overwhelmed with its own arrogance and complacency, … It offers little more than Band-Aids for some of the nation’s problems and does not project a sense of...

This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.

It’s typical of their arrogance.

I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she’s a bit full of herself.