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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
Power
,
Poetry
,
Him
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Offensive
,
Merit
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu
Encourage
,
Pretend
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
Ignorance
,
Pride
,
Vanity
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
Ross Perot
Public
,
Debt
,
Budget
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Life
,
Change
,
Humility
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
Theodore Bikel
Power
,
Strength
,
Strong
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
Chris Lowe
Stupidity
,
Long
,
Ego
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
Age
,
Youth
,
Taught
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
William Pollard
Success
,
Learning
,
Tomorrow
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
Yourself
,
Others
,
Within
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
David E. Price
Live
,
Justice
,
Help
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
Mehmet Oz
God
,
Heart
,
Person
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
Steffi Graf
Respect
,
Others
,
Lose
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Music
,
Hell
,
Listen
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather
Single
,
Dark
,
Sometimes
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
King
,
Rule
,
Sign
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
David Duchovny
Mad
,
Makes
,
Pretension
Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.
David Cone
Great
,
Hurt
,
Yourself
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
Rick Santorum
Freedom
,
Before
,
America
There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Technology
,
May
,
Healing
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould
Important
,
Human
,
After
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand
Family
,
Through
,
President
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Nature
,
Men
,
Human
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
David Mitchell
Worse
,
False
,
Modesty
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
Joe Biden
Power
,
Example
,
Nuclear
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Taylor Caldwell
Fall
,
Hands
,
Foreign
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Present
,
Claim
,
Inventing
As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.
Kim Weston
Artist
,
Amount
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
Rowan Atkinson
Society
,
Actually
,
Church
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