Sherwood Smith Quotes

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

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

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

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

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

Entitlement is lethal.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.