Pride quotes

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Bible_Verses

Tower Of Babel (Genesis 11:4-6)

(4) “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
(5) “And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
(6) “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
Keywords: Lord_quotes Build_quotes City_quotes Tower_quotes Top_quotes Reach_quotes Heaven_quotes Make_quotes Name_quotes Pride_quotes Hubris_quotes Scatter_quotes Face_quotes Whole_quotes Earth_quotes Children_quotes Men_quotes People_quotes One_quotes Unity_quotes Cooperation_quotes Language_quotes Do_quotes Nothing_quotes Restraint_quotes Imagination_quotes Babel_quotes

Octavia_E_Butler

We Say

“Beware: All too often, we say what we hear others say. We think what we’re told that we think. We see what we’re permitted to see. Worse! We see what we’re told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear and to see even an obvious lie again and again and again may be to say it, almost by reflex then to defend it because we’ve said it and at last to embrace it because we’ve defended it and because we cannot admit that we’ve embraced and defended an obvious lie. Thus, without thought, without intent, we make mere echoes of ourselves — and we say what we hear others say.”
  • Source: Written by Octavia E. Butler in her book entitled “Parable of the Talents”. Chapter 18. First published by Seven Stories Press, New York, NY, in 1998. ISBN-13: 978-1-888363-81-4.
Keywords: Beware_quotes Often_quotes Say_quotes Hear_quotes Think_quotes Told_quotes See_quotes Permit_quotes Worse_quotes Repetition_quotes Pride_quotes Key_quotes Obvious_quotes Lie_quotes Reflex_quotes Defend_quotes Embrace_quotes Thought_quotes Intent_quotes Admit_quotes Mere_quotes Echo_quotes Self_quotes Make_quotes

Dwight_D_Eisenhower

Long Lane of History

“During the long lane of the history yet to be written, America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.”
  • Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell address (17 January 1961).
Keywords: Lane_quotes Long_quotes History_quotes America_quotes World_quotes Community_quotes Fear_quotes Hate_quotes Pride_quotes Confederation_quotes Trust_quotes Respect_quotes Equal_quotes Weakness_quotes Conference_quotes Table_quotes Negotiation_quotes Confidence_quotes Protection_quotes Moral_quotes Economics_quotes Military_quotes Frustration_quotes Abandon_quotes Agony_quotes Pain_quotes Battlefield_quotes

Woodie_Flowers

Die Proud

“I want to die proud of having been an engineer... that can happen only if we engineers behave ethically.”
  • Source: Book/Contributor=Woodie Flowers; Book/Title=“Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research”; Contribution/Placement=Forward; Book/Author={C. Whitbeck}; Book/Publication/Date=2011; Edition=2nd; Publisher=Cambridge University Press; Location=New York, NY.
Keywords: Engineering_quotes Death_quotes Pride_quotes Ethics_quotes

Daniel_Kahneman

Who Can We Trust

“We often interact with professionals who exercise their judgment with evident confidence, sometimes priding themselves on the power of their intuition. In a world rife with illusions of validity and skill, can we trust them? How do we distinguish the justified confidence of experts from the sincere overconfidence of professionals who do not know they are out of their depth? We can believe an expert who admits uncertainty but cannot take expressions of high confidence at face value. As I first learned on the obstacle field, people come up with coherent stories and confident predictions even when they know little or nothing. Overconfidence arises because people are often blind to their own blindness.”
  • Source: "Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence". New York Times. October 19, 2011.
Keywords: Interaction_quotes Professional_quotes Exercise_quotes Judgment_quotes Confidence_quotes Pride_quotes Power_quotes Intuition_quotes World_quotes Illusion_quotes Validity_quotes Skill_quotes Trust_quotes Distinguish_quotes Justification_quotes Expert_quotes Sincerity_quotes Depth_quotes Belief_quotes Uncertainty_quotes Expression_quotes Face_quotes Value_quotes Obstacle_quotes Coherence_quotes Story_quotes Prediction_quotes Knowledge_quotes Overconfidence_quotes Blind_quotes Bias_quotes

Niccolò_Machiavelli

Pleased and Deceived

“Men in general, are so pleased with their own doings and so deceived about them.”
Keywords: Men_quotes Please_quotes Do_quotes Deceive_quotes Pride_quotes Arrogance_quotes

Jef_Raskin

Proud Footnote

“I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become.”
Keywords: Footnote_quotes Pride_quotes Engineer_quotes

Baruch_Spinoza

Love With Cause

“If he believes that he has given just cause for the love, he will take pride therein; this is what most often happens.”
Keywords: Love_quotes Pride_quotes Causality_quotes Belief_quotes Give_quotes Often_quotes Happen_quotes
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