Arrogance Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

— Benjamin Banneker

Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not…

— Seneca the Younger

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among…

— Anton Chekhov

It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders humility within…

— Diadochos of Photiki

“I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the…

— David McCullough

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

— Wendell Berry

The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with…

— Guy Standing

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

— Aeschylus

“Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to…

— Judith Butler

Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs…

— Lewis B. Smedes

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what…

— Henry Fielding

Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the…

— Russell Kirk