Quotes About Presumptuousness

#1. The prime fact is that all humans are puffed up by their extreme self-satisfaction with their own brute power. Unless some creatures more powerful than humans arrive on earth to bully them, there's just no knowing to what dire lengths their fool presumptuousness will eventually carry them.

Soseki Natsume

#2. I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.

Billy Collins

#3. Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

Franz Grillparzer

#4. I am a mage," she replied with every ounce of haughtiness three years in a competitive doctoral program had taught her. "We bend the rules of the universe on a daily basis. Presumptuousness is the base line for entry.

Rachel Aaron

#5. the chains that bound me for my entire life would effectively be removed. My shackles set aside, I would be free.

Scott Hildreth

#6. I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Impatience is a virtue.

Ursula Burns

#8. Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Peter Medawar

#9. Keynes eliminated economic theory's ancient role as spoilsport for inflationist and statist schemes, leading a new generation of economists on to academic power and to political pelf and privilege.

Murray Rothbard

#10. President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.

Jimmy Fallon