Arrogant Quote by Ouida Download Open image “The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.” — Ouida ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arrogant Arrogant Boundless Boundless Boundless Scorn Genius Genius Arrogant Intelligence Most arrogant Scorn Scorn Genius
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women… — Ouida Copy Share Image
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. — Ouida Copy Share Image
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Some say work smarter, not harder, but the wisest are both. Whether you're more of a hard worker or a smart worker, if you're… — Colby Tatem Copy Share Image
I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for… — Judge Reinhold Copy Share Image
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?” “No. I’m looking for something more.” “More than love?” “Yes.” “Is… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image