Complacency Quotes

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. Basil Liddell Hart

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. Jimmy Carter

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. Franz Grillparzer

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Vladimir Nabokov

The great enemy of intelligence is complacency. John Dos Passos