A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
George EliotBut self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
Stephen MitchellTags: humility arrogance egoism self-abasement
Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.
Toba BetaTags: snooty arrogance blind stumbling-block
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Anatole FranceTags: truth arrogance zealotry
Full moon is falling through the sky.
Cranes fly through clouds.
Wolves howl. I cannot find rest
Because I am powerless
To amend a broken world.
Sima Zian added, "I love the man who wrote that, I told you before, but there is so much burden in Chan Du. Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can know what must be done, and do it properly. We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.
Tags: future arrogance foresight duty powerlessness
... It's the rare
God who needs less stroking that a rock
Star or poetician ...
However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that.
Richard WilliamsTags: art school arrogance artist
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.
Abu Hamid al-GhazaliTags: lust arrogance lying selfishness intolerance conceit anger greed islam jihad cheating egoism gossiping slandering
Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
John IrvingTags: arrogance self-importance drunk driving sober
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
William HazlittTags: vanity arrogance talking prudence
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