You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss JamiTag: truth honesty humility arrogance corruption destruction sincerity pride insincerity
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.
Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.
Tag: perception youth arrogance aspirations entitlement ambitions
With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.
Jane AustenTag: arrogance mischief matchmaking matchmaker
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.
Criss JamiTag: science imagination intelligence existence morality god religion atheism arrogance pride authority apologetics agnosticism sovereignty foundation theism pretending antitheism napoleon-complex
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
George EliotTag: self-deception arrogance depravity
arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom
Celso CukierkornTag: wisdom arrogance wisdom-quote
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Frank Lloyd WrightArrogance is thinking you are above someone else,
Confidence is knowing no one is above you.
Tag: confidence arrogance
... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
Dan SimmonsTag: arrogance
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
N.T. WrightTag: grace arrogance self-righteousness
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