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"Let your pretence of arrogance grow big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you."
"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."
"Much self - condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'."
"Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance."
"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."
"Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick."
Explore more quotes by Theodore Bikel
"I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"
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