#arrogance

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

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

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

— Lionel Suggs

#respect

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled from it, not opposed seduction. But the day of Trial will arrive! Oh! then when you yield to impetuous passions! when you feel that Man is weak, and born to err; When shuddering you look back upon your crimes, and solicit with terror the mercy of your God, Oh! in that fearful moment think upon me! Think upon your Cruelty! Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon! ↗

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

#arrogance #callousness #catholicism #cold-hearted-people #cruelty

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ↗

— Robert Buettner

#conformity #grand-picture #human-behavior #human-superiority #humankind

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#arrogance #must #submit #taught #youth

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. ↗

— David Duchovny

#arrogance #mad #makes #me #pretension