The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance,” — Greg Grandin Copy Share Image
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out. — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
People care when service is sluggish and comes from an arrogance and complacency that often besets those who know they can never… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When you have the arrogance, the confidence and you can't cook, then you're only going to look stupid. — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Initially when I got called up, I thought it would change my life. And it didn't. Then when I won the Most… — Joey Votto Copy Share Image
When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“He was a fool to think he could have love twice in this life. Arrogance. He held her hand close his chest… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
An idiot is a person who lives in a very tiny place called: Idiocity. You can tolerate his idiocy for so long… — London Mond Copy Share Image
How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“The only thing worse than his arrogance was his incompetence. He was a bully, behaving like an ass. I saw Angel though,… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers… — George Will Copy Share Image
“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my… — José Micard Teixeira Copy Share Image
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t angry that there was a person who could provide her with help and protection. That would be arrogance, and she… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate. — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance. — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
Now I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Amidst cruelty arrogance has its role, but you gotta tread with extreme caution. Arrogance laid on the wrong person is an appalling… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The constructed arrogance of the display was intentional. It said, exquisitely: Did you exert yourself at Charcy? I have been here examining… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image