"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves"
- Willa Cather
About this Quote
This quote speaks with the intricacy of human relationships and also exactly how we can often fast to evaluate others without making the effort to comprehend them. It suggests that also those we have done not like for a long period of time can surprise us with a solitary statement that reveals a different side to them. It implies that we are all uncertain, puzzled, as well as at night somehow, and that we must take the time to look past our initial impacts of individuals. It motivates us to be extra unbiased as well as to identify that every person has their own struggles and insecurities. Ultimately, it advises us that we are all human and that we should strive to be even more understanding and caring in the direction of one another.
This quote is written / told by Willa Cather between December 7, 1873 and April 24, 1947. She was a famous Author from USA.
The author also have 31 other quotes.
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"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos"
"We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities"
"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled"
"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them"
"We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived"