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#arrogance

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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.


Mark Twain


#humor #ignorance #humor

Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed.


Toba Beta


#busy #underestimate #business

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.


John Rachel


#cerebral #computers #gymnastics #intelligence #orangutan

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!


C. JoyBell C.


#greatness #humility #inadequacy #insecurity #wisdom-inspirational

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.


Bertrand Russell


#doubt #ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #philosophy

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.


Edmund Burke


#arrogance #must #submit #taught #youth

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.


David Duchovny


#arrogance #mad #makes #me #pretension

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.


James D. Watson


#arrogance #belief #both #characterized #found

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.


Reed Hastings


#based #hindsight #i #into #past

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.


Samuel Butler


#characters #ignorance #pride #truest #vanity






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