Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?” — C R Strahan Copy Share Image
“He had the arrogance of twenty thousand Cornishmen who knew the reason why.” — Alan Mark Kent Copy Share Image
“It is an act of subtle arrogance for anyone to decide what is best for someone else.” — Stephanie Ericsson Copy Share Image
Girls who say Lots of guys want me should never forget that low prices attract the most customers. — Emaliebaby Copy Share Image
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“In his arrogance, Caesar had even renamed one of the months of the year—the most beautiful summer month—Julius, after himself.” — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in? — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of… — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
“For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“Above all, you must be humble. When you are humble, you are like a sponge, taking in the world and letting it… — Shane Kuhn Copy Share Image
Uriah looked better than he did an hour ago--he washed the blood from his mouth, and some of the color returned to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I pitied the French for their naivete in believing that they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“The arrogance of the Europeans reaches a level in which you have to name it as pathetic. They are so focused on… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
