Arrogance Quotes

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and f...

Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-res...

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I d...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arr...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former...

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those wi...

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he ha...

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies...

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.“Pride?” Catelyn snapped. His mocking ...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

One guy yelled at me, 'You stupid bitch, how do you live like that with nothing in your brain?' Well...

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed ...

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the sma...

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centrali...

You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to...

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by...

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

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

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out...

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes wit...

Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?""Because of what you are. Just exactly ...

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest intere...

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I...

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you...

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselv...

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the h...

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance wh...

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insuffer...

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator ...

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and a...

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail...

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth wit...

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.

My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it w...

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...

The map? I will first make it.

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...

The map? I will first make it.

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...

The map? I will first make it.

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...

The map? I will first make it.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism sur...

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ign...

Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by conde...

Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but th...

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the ...

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you...

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see ...

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are...

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinen...

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carri...

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders...

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to ta...

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in compute...

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to ...

Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to ...

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or hon...

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employ...

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repen...

Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowin...

don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,d...

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a brid...

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I...

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea ...

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I...

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arro...

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my ...

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, a...

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph...