Mao Zedong Quotes

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

I was a cocky kid.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

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.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old and some of the young, and some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.