Don't you dare call me arrogant! If ever I had any at all-which I deny! - how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim–so modestly and so humbly–to possess. It is time to withdraw our...
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Christopher Hitchens
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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Mark Twain
Naive people tend to generalize people as–-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of...
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Shannon L. Alder
God save me from fools with a little philosophy–no one is more difficult to reach.
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Epictetus
More Quotes By Georgette Heyer
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
My house seems remarkably full of people, " he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.
You will like her, " he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm."" Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire-- I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.
If it comes to that, " retorted Frederica, with spirit, " I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me, cousin! You are quite abominable! " He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.
