Jill Tarter Quotes

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

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

The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn't think he's Reggie Jackson.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

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

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

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

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

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.

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 never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

So close is life to life. The universality of the deep chemistry of living things is indeed a fantastic and beautiful thing. And all the time we human beings have been too proud to recognize our kinship with the animals.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

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

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

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

There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.