True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness.… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even… — Thomas Bernhard 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
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy. — Susan Lucci Copy Share Image
In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human". — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
To Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement 'I'm mad… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
To win, you must use neither aggression nor arrogance. Indeed, you can obtain your goals by being calm and doing all things… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
