Arrogance Quotes
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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it."
"I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me."
"You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak."
"Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion."
"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]"
"It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel."
"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."
"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."
"I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit."
"It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60)."
"Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?"
"There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA,"though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk,"given our level of ignorance."
"I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras."
"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not."
"When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own."
"The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature."
"Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all only reveals to all that he really knows nothing."
"If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse."
"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."
"He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths."
"Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are."
"What causes all this?""Pride. What else?"
"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered."
"But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance."
"No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
"How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion."
"Trying to be more than human one becomes less."
"God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach."
"Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]"
Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
"Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version."
"Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position."
"To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf."
"... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ..."
"People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them."
"Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek."
"I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places."
"Some things sound better if they don't come from you."
"Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon as you let success go to your head, you sink into following familiar patterns and play it safe. In other words, you risk losing your edge."
"Humility moves more mountains than arrogance."
"Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them."
"People often think of humility as the act of saying 'I am not that great.' This is lack of confidence. True humility is looking at the amazing people throughout history and saying 'I am pretty great... but I can always be greater."
"Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory"
"Humility and Dignity had a daughter, called Arrogance, who was ashamed of her name and used to hide behind Pride. But Pride was in love with Truth, therefore arrogance married Illusion and forever despised Truth. Pride and Truth had a daughter, called Happiness, while Arrogance and Illusion had a son, called Despair. When both meet, one of them cries."
"He grinned, and right then it occurred to him that he hadn't enjoyed himself so much with a woman in a very long time. If Annabelle Granger were a few inches taller, a hell of a lot more sophisticated, better organized, less bossy, and more inclined to worship at his feet, she'd have made a perfect wife."
"Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time"
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