#arrogance

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

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. ↗

— George Stevens

#brutality #capable #despise #discover #fierce

Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#respect

Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. She that was so proud and wild, Flippant, arrogant and free, She that had no need of me, Is a little lonely child Lost in Hell,—Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, “My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#arrogance

Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ? Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version. ↗

— Toba Beta

#complex #frenzy #scary-version #simple #truth

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me. ↗

— Toba Beta

#cheapen #pride #secret #arrogance

Oh, the cleverness of me! ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#arrogance

I'm too old to know everything ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #youthful-arrogance #arrogance

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger. ↗

— Toba Beta

#sign-of-weakness #arrogance