Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia WoolfTag: empowerment gender men women feminism arrogance hypocrisy inequality self-importance
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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 HitchensTag: inspirational power belief god religion humility atheism fantasy arrogance respect modesty
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard ShawTag: politics ignorance arrogance politicians
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: inspirational arrogance philosphy
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
George ClooneyTag: education speech arrogance ego
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]
Tag: truth knowledge judgment arrogance presumption ridicule omniscience pomposity preface-to-brissot-s-address
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann LandersTag: money arrogance class character self-knowledge discipline cockiness self-discipline sure-footedness
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan KayTag: humor science arrogance computer-science edsger-dijkstra edsger-w-dijkstra edsger-wybe-dijkstra
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
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark TwainTag: humor ignorance arrogance
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