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

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

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....

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’ by my betters. Defiance has made...

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

He has a pure love of the game, no arrogance, and no fear of failure.

Oh, Gods.”His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. “The name’s William. It’s a common mistake.

It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism

Saturated Arrogance…imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me…

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snake approached God’s...

You’re so arrogant, you’re almost macho.

I’m surprised they’ve taken things quite as slowly as they have. It’s that sort of arrogance and lethargy that made Napster happen. Where is the real action?

Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

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-projection is all you can imagine one...

You are arrogant,” says the cat, “and you are in love. Either one of these things alone might be overcome, but together, they make for a stubborn combination.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

…a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not...

Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors...

When I saw snooty guy, I missed my childhood.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to...

Insecurity was never humility; just as arrogance was never success.

Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one’s vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who...

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[…]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don’t over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don’t...

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I’m afraid.””Any will do,” the rabbi replied in Provençal.”Splendid. Latin it is,” said Pope Clement.

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

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...

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul;...

Many in the unions have demonstrated a level of arrogance and even greed.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

You’ll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight.””Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed out, helping...

would mean the triumph of one side, and every triumph is dangerous because it carries the seed of arrogance, pride and mistakes.

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.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn’t owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed...

People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Saturated Arrogance…she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me.But if you ever deliberately provoke me, in a way trying to hurt me, I’m so worried that you will die, or...

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

the miraculous” is the impossible. He knows that the witnesses were wholly incapable of examining the questions involved, that credulity had possession of their minds, that ‘the miraculous’ was expected, that it was their daily...

Arrogance is trying to convince others you’re more than who they know you are.

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.