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.

Quotes? you want quotes?To sound important, quote yourself

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...

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.