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.

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

Don’t let success lead to arrogance and failure lead to criticism.

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our...

How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous,...

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much...

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...

Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.

Since the war, we’re the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how...

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in...

I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular...

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn’t.

They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren’t much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should...

Arrogance is shown in one’s respect to the truth.

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you’ll learn more.

However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature’; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn’t such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. “Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen”, she said… and then I found out –...

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

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 have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly...

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds – and therefore other people – boast for you, you’re made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those...

Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK “succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders”. Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.

I had a dream about you. My pee was cloudy, and I brought an umbrella to the urinal. You were the Coach of the Men’s Room, and you were giving me advice on how to...

Sufi’s soul seeking serenity succeeds at the cost of the body which gets spifflicated by the spines of the social world.

I think there’s a sense of arrogance and entitlement here, a complacency in the United States.

For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women — of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak...

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely...

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time – as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience – the final end of human progress.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn’t do it with his chest stuck out.

Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

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English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

Arrogant people beat each other.

Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their...