#arrogance

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance. ↗

— Toba Beta

#cheap #fragrance #life #simple-living #life

The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there’s arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#quarter-life-crisis #success #twenties #writing #life

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#arrogance #because #both #bush #countries

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#arrogance #cleanses #concern #corrupts #diversity

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

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#appearances #arrogance #arrogant #beautiful #beauty

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#ignorance #politicians #politics #career

Without humor, we’d all be what we’re laughing at. Without arrogance, we’d be humiliated to admit we already are. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#narcissism #paranoia #self-centeredness #imagination

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly? ↗

— C.R. Strahan

#arrogance #folly #intelligent-men #intelligence