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“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”

- Amit Kalantri,

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“No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.”

- W. Somerset Maugham

Tag: christianity, christians, egoism, error, hubris, pride, religion, sin,

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“Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.”

- Philip Pullman

Tag: censorship, evil, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-speech, hubris, religion,

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“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn’t seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as “junk DNA,” though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome “junk,” given our level of ignorance.”

- Francis S. Collins,

Tag: arrogance, biology, dna, hubris, human-genome, ignorance, junk-dna, knowledge, pride, science,

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“Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.”

- Athanasius Kircher

Tag: hubris, knowledge,

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“The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that to be right you must first be wrong many times. Without making errors–and learning from them–a man cannot find the truth.”

- Christopher Peter Grey,

Tag: errors, hubris, mistakes, truth,

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“It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).”

- Joseph Campbell,

Tag: arrogance, god, hubris, impudence, understanding,

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