Shirley MacLaine Quotes

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

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.