Quotes by Arrogance There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Henry David Thoreau arrogance nature bees Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever Howard Fast yiddish nerves arrogance Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not. Hugh B. Brown arrogance emotional answers A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important. Friedrich Nietzsche arrogance important people The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us. Friedrich Nietzsche merit arrogance people The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off Ibn Taymiyyah arrogance disease worship Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death - this infantile fixation of mine - was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry - with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.' Ingmar Bergman arrogance feelings night Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt. Immanuel Kant arrogance honor thinking Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding. Ilona Andrews height arrogance thinking I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity. J. Allen Hynek arrogance suffering doe He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. Isabel Allende ignorant quality arrogance I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance. J. Michael Bishop arrogance office years Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. Isaac Asimov arrogance science knowledge Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it. Jack Gleeson arrogance emotion You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it. Iyanla Vanzant ego arrogance giving The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. James A. Michener arrogance artist profound I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance. James Corden over-confidence arrogance sometimes I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders. James Denton arrogance leader thinking Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. James A. Baldwin atheism arrogance spiritual My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous. James Inhofe arrogance people thinking «23456789101112»