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.

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....

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

The world doesn’t revolve around you!”The earth was fragile and mostly water,just the way the orange was mostly water if you peeled it,just the way I was mostly water if you peeled me.Looking back on...

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders...

Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses.

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...

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for...

Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.Master of Stupidity: If I don’t, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one...

Do we think we know enough to chart where we are on the arc of our lives? Forgive us, Father, for the arrogance of such projections. What do they gain us? If we project nothing...

How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and...

All of yesterday’s ballers are today’s road sweepers.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God’s will that he began to admit that God’s purposes might be different from...

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

The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.

If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride.

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

The contest of world’s tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.

It’s a fine line. It’s almost an arrogance some players play with. And they’ve got to have some of it. You want to have confidence without too much arrogance with it.

I am a lot more comfortable, … There’s a difference between arrogance and being confident. I’m not arrogant but I feel a lot more confidence about what I do.

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.