We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.” — Amber Hurdle Copy Share Image
“Everything you know is past. And with that disgusting arrogance of knowing the past, one cannot know something novel.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Governmentally or spiritually ordered, the muslim migration in Europe represents a necessary breakdown in European arrogance.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I had no trouble with his readiness to change his attitude. I despise the oppression of social hierarchies and seniority-based systems, unless… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures.… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
“His grin was shameless "If you're just now realizing what an original I am, Catherine, you're even later to the game than… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for… — Barbara Hodgson Copy Share Image
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence,… — Anonymous 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
That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces,… — Mariah Nelson 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
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
“There was nothing worse, Veppers thought, than a loser who’d made it. It was just part of the way things worked –… — Iain M. Banks 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
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image