Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

Plautus

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

Jeffrey Immelt

I think there's a sense of arrogance and entitlement here, a complacency in the United States.

Kurt Vonnegut

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

Mark Twain

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water

Jerome Forneris

My career could have ended on a play that I went out on the field arrogant, I did some things I never should do. I learned a valuable lesson in that. If you go out there with a sense of arrogance and you haven't accomplished anything, you set yourself up for failure. Looking at that and looking at her miscue, it brought back some painful memories for me.

Robert Winston

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.

E. Hurley

I think people enjoy pomposity and arrogance as long as it's pointed at you.

Dalai Lama

I'd rather be kind than right. You can always be kind.

Jerry Seinfeld

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

Jane Lynch

Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

Colin Powell

Remain calm, be kind.