#arrogance

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#always #arrogance #big #big enough #conversely

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. ↗

— James A. Michener

#artist #fortifies #profound #thing #very

When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It’s often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#self-righteousness #life

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#arrogance #get #heal #healing #i

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#character #commonplace #english #insular #joke

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 #cases #draw #feel #god-given

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#am #arrogance #been #broad #employ

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. ↗

— William Pollard

#did #go #hand #innovation #learning

The wise hero must realise how terrible it will be, when all the wealth of this world lies waste, as now in various places throughout this middle-earth walls stand, blown by the wind covered with frost, the buildings storm-swept. The halls decay, their lords lie deprived of joy, the whole hearth-troop has fallen, proud by the wall. from THE WANDERER, lines 73-80 ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful-writing #destruction #futility #haunting #middle-earth

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. ↗

— George Eliot

#humor #society #humor