Self Satisfied Quotes

34 quotes by 33 authors

Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming… — Michael J. Fox
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno
Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. — Janis Ian
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six… — Desiderius Erasmus
Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate… — Ramit Sethi
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if… — Abraham Flexner
Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain… — Dave Barry
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support… — Desiderius Erasmus
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing… — George Brett
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive. — Claude Bernard
It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital… — Simone de Beauvoir
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow... — Wassily Kandinsky
I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated… — Emily Carr
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. — William Osler
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied. — Napoleon Bonaparte
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. — Neil Gaiman

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