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I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization. -- Adam Ferrara
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross. -- D. A. Carson
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. -- Knute Nelson
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony. -- Richard Leakey
Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet. -- Peter Singer
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
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. -- Cyrano de Bergerac
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race. -- Paul Watson
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them. -- Knute Nelson
A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ... -- Tim Smit
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human". -- Jane Goodall
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. -- Ruth Benedict
Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance. -- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
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. -- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset

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