Brian McKnight Quotes

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Of course, I'm no dummy.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.