Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

— Daniel Ellsberg

“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety…

— Euripides

We have to be in abundance and recognize that we're just a small piece of this big thing that's moving along the biosphere, earth,…

— Peter Buffett

“Humble people avoid hurting others. They esteem others better than themselves. Humble people are not high-minded, they are not selfish. They do not strive…

— GUESSELLA DANIELS Th.D

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

— Brian Ortega

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

— Michael O'Donoghue

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good…

— David Hume

If we all become successful, there may not be a winner nor a loser, but life will surely be better for everyone.

— Terry Mark

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

— William James

Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana,…

— William H. Gass

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

— George Eliot

Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

— Madchen Amick

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,…

— Dick Armey

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean…

— Sheldon Whitehouse