Overweening Quotes

#1. It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit
the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

R. Kent Hughes

#3. Lord, there has never been a human society without overweening pride at the top and bitter envy at the bottom. That is why if the "have-nots" ever overthrow the "haves" they become the same.

Timothy Keller

#4. As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Charles Kennedy

#5. I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

Margaret Thatcher

#6. Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

Harold Ramis

#8. Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Alistair Cooke

#9. The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

Alice Neel

#11. There was no point in taking issue with Marilla's overweening self-regard. It was as infinite as a starry night.

Eloisa James

#12. That there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces

Tom Holland

#13. But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

Aeschylus

#14. When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

Jeffrey Kluger

#15. This is the way addled liberals really think. Even as they champion sucking the brains out of little babies, they think of themselves as indelibly compassionate because they favor an overweening, behemoth federal government.

Ann Coulter

#16. Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

Sri Aurobindo

#17. The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

Ralph Ellison

#18. He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

Plutarch

#19. Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Aldous Huxley

#20. Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

Harold Pinter

#21. Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of Motherhood. If you are the one who burned the toast, you scrape if off and eat it yourself. If they burned it, you eat it because the burned it specially for you.

Emily Watts

#22. The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

Myles Munroe

#23. I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

Tom Sizemore

#24. I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'

Ashton Kutcher

#25. My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date ... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me ... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson