Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.

Those who obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

Very smart people tend to be weird since they insist on thinking everything through for themselves.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

"Atticus, you must be wrong."

"How's that?"

"Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . ."

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently...

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.