Quotes by Arrogance The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence. Lawrence Kushner arrogance moments may An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person. Leo Tolstoy arrogant-person arrogance perfect You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch glowing arrogance color It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject. LeRoy Neiman arrogance use people Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill. Lisa Unger arrogance rage overcoming When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened. Lucy Freeman frightened snob arrogance Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit? Lynn Margulis discipline arrogance humanity You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State. Ludwig von Mises effort arrogance men Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence? Malcolm Forbes justified arrogance feelings There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful. Marcia Angell arrogance powerful attitude Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility. Marco Pierre White greatness arrogance humility There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls. Margaret Deland arrogance doubt people There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. Margaret Mead self-control arrogance culture Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all. Margaret Way arrogance forget men If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation. Margaret Atwood arrogance humility book In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. Marcus Tullius Cicero prosperity arrogance pride Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. Marcus Aurelius wealth let-it-go arrogance The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively. Marcus Aurelius luxury arrogance father I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach arrogance regret inexperience It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science. Marilynne Robinson diversity arrogance culture «56789101112131415»