Arrogant Quote by Sydney J. Harris

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas' etc. There…

— Sean Michael Wilson

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.

— William McFee

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

— William McFee

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

— Emile Zola

I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because…

— Paul Dirac

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon

As a rule, the man who first thinks of a new idea is so much ahead of his time that everyone thinks him silly,…

— Ash Sweeney

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

— George Chapman

“age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. Its only advantage, so far as I have been able…

— Robert A. Heinlein