arrogance

Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I__ a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

Arrogance is the last thing to die

There is a wicked and pervading arrogance loose on the earth, like a rabid beast, an overdog. Does it run, does it slouch, does its name have a number? The beast preaches contempt, for that's what arrogance says: that nothing is real but itself, and the bone and blood of another's being are insubstantial as breath.

Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was __alse,_ the best thing he could say is that it was __nteresting.

The attitude that psychologists call inflation and the traditional lore of Cabalistic magic, borrowing a term from religion, calls spiritual pride is one of the most serious dangers of this work.Those who enter the path of magic with too great an appetite for flattery or too strong a need for ego reinforcement will very likely find these things, but they are also rather too likely to find fanaticism, megalomania and mental breakdown along the same route. The thing has happened far too often in the history of magic in the West.

Insecurity takes on various disguises. Cockiness and arrogance are among the most common.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.

Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.