"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."

Arrogance, First, Present

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"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."

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"I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders."

James Denton, American Actor

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"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."

Stephen Jay Gould, American Scientist

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"Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

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"It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Arrogance is the last thing to die."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

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"Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way."

Chris Lowe, English Musician

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"Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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