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...

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

I just believe that someday I’ll meet a person who’d describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what...

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

Love is the blind revelation of arrogance.

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

She doesn’t have that arrogance that a lot of state champions have. She makes it up with a self-driven desire that she’s not going to lose. She’s not arrogant or cocky but she sure as...

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: – fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone’s offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with ‘you’ in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine...

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

Who cares!

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

The map? I will first make it.

Selfishness squelches love.

If it’s not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I’m interested in but don’t yet know. It’s when they explain things to me I know...

Without humor, we’d all be what we’re laughing at. Without arrogance, we’d be humiliated to admit we already are.

To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t see when you’re unashamedly looking down on someone.

There’s nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.

Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won’t spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a...

In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who...

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Evangelicals have squandered their cultural capital because they have tried to reclaim a standing in American culture that they never had. The American Founding was a mix of fragmented religious (and not-so-religious) voices.

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Don’t feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is...

Your arrogance lessens your beauty.

I’ a word that’s let you Die

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

I chase goals, not girls.