"Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine."
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"It's only arrogance if you're wrong."
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"Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism."
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"Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing."
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"I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground."
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"If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts."
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"There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved."
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"Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption."
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"For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues."
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"Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews."
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"It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance."
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"Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly."
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"Modesty is only arrogance by stealth."
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"The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively."
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"The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking."
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"The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance."
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"I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty."
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"I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever."
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"Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death - this infantile fixation of mine - was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry - with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.'"
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"In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance."
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