Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

I think that the moment you start believing in your own importance, you stop learning.

I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom. This continued arrogant ladling out of pieces of the rights of citizenship has begun to generate a fury in the Negro.