The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
—Samuel Butler
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
—Sydney J. Harris
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
When you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.
—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
—Rita Rudner