#arrogance

My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#arrogance-and-attitude #humbling #pride #attitude

The arrogance of these people! ↗

— Soheir Khashoggi

#attitude

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal. "Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement. ↗

— Iain Pears

#communication #conceit #languages #mockery #papal-authority

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious. ↗

— Walker Percy

#education #obnoxious #education

Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#experience

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#ignorance #stupidity #freedom

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#god #hubris #impudence #understanding #art

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #belief #fantasy #god #humility

Never mistake arrogance for intellect. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#arrogant #humility #intelligence #pride #intelligence

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#fear #men #women #men