#arrogance

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#honesty #humility #career

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#grace #self-righteousness #self-determination

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

— Toba Beta

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

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#accompanies #always #arrogance #assume #choice

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway. ↗

— Stephen King

#age

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

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all. ↗

— Margaret Way

#arrogant #liberate #liberated #men #women

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark ↗

— Ayn Rand

#society #money