Michael Kazin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

  • No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.

  • Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

  • Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

  • The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

  • In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

  • To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

  • You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

  • Arrogance can be deadly.

  • Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

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