Blind Arrogance Quotes

#1. But, granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance.

N. T. Wright

#2. The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

Sydney J. Harris

#3. Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.

Janet Maslin

#4. And then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death, as a child at some rare bauble.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. To be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about that other people think of you.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. Religions understand this: they know that to sustain goodness, it helps to have an audience. The faiths hence provide us with a gallery of witnesses at the ceremonial beginnings of our marriages and thereafter they entrust a vigilant role to their deities.

Alain De Botton

#7. I picked out a question with care. You have to be careful with strangers; questions can reveal as much as answers -Eve

Michele Jaffe

#8. A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.

David Brin

#9. As he looked across to the opposite bank a cold claw sank into his heart. Sandstorm was gone.

Erin Hunter

#10. The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

Merrie Spaeth

#11. Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

Herman Melville

#12. Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Heinrich Rohrer

#13. The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

William Hazlitt

#14. I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

Irwin Winkler

#15. It was a red Moleskine - made of neither mole nor skin, but nonetheless the preferred journal of my associates who felt the need to journal in non-electronic form.

Rachel Cohn

#16. We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more warning about unintended consequences, about human arrogance and the blind worship of science.

Eric Schlosser

#17. We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth."
"Which truth?"
"Any truth. All truth." her voice was solemn

Kay Hooper

#18. Love is the blind revelation of arrogance.

Lionel Suggs

#19. Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#20. Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

Joe Teti

#21. I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.

Mae Whitman

#22. Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.

Toba Beta

#23. Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

Emily Blunt