"Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom."

-- Bion of Smyrna

#Arrogance Quotes #Obstruction Quotes

“This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”
“Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.”
“In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.”
“What's one less person on the face of the earth, anyway?”
“Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.”
“When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.”
“I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.”
“To love is to choose.”

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