Harold Coffin Quotes

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

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

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

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

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

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.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

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

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

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

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.