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• If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

  Rumi

  Wine, Drunk, Shows

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• And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

  Susanna Clarke

  Names, Polite, Wells

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.799, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

  Joseph Heller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

  Michael Scott

  Stupidity, Sophie, Lines

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.528, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Sunday, Average

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• Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

  Vince Flynn

  Mistake, Stupidity, Enemy

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• Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

  Milton Friedman

  Humility, Virtue, Believer

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

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• It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Self Confidence, May

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• That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.

  Donny Deutsch

  Responsibility, People, Taking Responsibility

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• Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love, Life, Karma

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• Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

  Jeannette Walls

  Thinking, Appreciate, Perfect

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• I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Suffering, Doe, Different

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• The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.

  Liu Xia

  Motivational, Hate, Humility

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• One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.

  Sean Penn

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Issues, Imagination

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• I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

  Joyce Stranger

  Lying, Cat, Grace

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• The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  People, Would Be, Sin

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• Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Ignorance, World, Relation

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• Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Feels, Dependent, Despised

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• The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Lying, Smell

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.31

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• Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."

  Clark Gable

  Dream, War, Winning

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• I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

  Winston Churchill

  Eight, Years, Hearing

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• Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Heart, Bravery

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.102

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• Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race of inferior beings condemned by nature to perpetual pupilage, and fruitlessly endeavouring to remedy their barrenness by incessant cultivation, or succour their feebleness by subsidiary strength. They presume that none would be more industrious than they, if they were not more sensible of deficiences; and readily conclude, that he who places no confidence in his own powers owes his modesty only to his weakness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Race

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.83

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• Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fate, World, Forgotten

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.49

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