Freedom Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the…

— Jetta Carleton

“Thus he started his education, that marvelous, growing, aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of proved experience…

— James A. Michener

“from self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority.”

— Lao Tzu

“He studied diligently, unsparingly, and for that they respected him, but no one liked him”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.”

— Lao Tzu

“Researchers at Yale University have shown that educated people are more unshakable in their convictions than anybody.”

— Rutger Bregman

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner

“Such arrogance. A right of youth, he supposes, a necessity. How else is it possible to face the terrifying void of your unformed self…

— Marisa Silver

“The worst of which he could be accused during his teaching career is that he made far too great a distinction between those students…

— J.K. Rowling

“He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“More and more he'd begun to recognize the position of importance his students were unconsciously forcing upon him - the ultimate leader of The…

— Todd Strasser

“Arrogance in an individual is a function of "false pride" based on his past sporadic successes.”

— Rakesh Seth