When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.

My father referred to it as “the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers.” He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say...

[The attempt to ensure passage] was a mixture of arrogance and stupidity, … It would have made a Sunni boycott (of Saturday’s vote) inevitable.

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You’ll get a simple scary version.

Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that...

Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years ,

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man’s rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

She couldn’t live in denial of her own humanity.

I’m on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn’t been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a...

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Your arrogance doesn’t cheapen me.

Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.

Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare;...

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.