Arrogance Quotes

Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You're so arrogant, you're almost macho.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

Edward O. Wilson

Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.

Confirming what you see as reality...is a true sign of your arrogance.

Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.

The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there’s arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.

Toba Beta

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday - because of a doctor's arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are clinicians, scientists. We observe time-honored procedures and analyses - that's how we are trained. And this is what happens when we subjugate that training to arrogance!

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Love is the blind revelation of arrogance.

They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren’t much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.

To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.

Ashly Lorenzana

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans.We only value mankind as our experimentation object.

Toba Beta

There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are numerous people, on the other hand, who are fierce crusaders at the price of fanaticism. In his political commitments the fanatic makes claims for his particular case which cannot be validated by either a transcendent Providence or a neutral posterity.

Elton Trueblood

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

Charles A. Coulombe

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

I' a word that's let you Die

The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.

Toba Beta

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

There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.

David G. McAfee

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

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

One guy yelled at me, 'You stupid bitch, how do you live like that with nothing in your brain?' Well, that did it. I wasn't going to put up with that. Ok, I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working classes that get exploited. What kind of revolution is it that just throws out big words that working-class people can't understand? What kind of crap social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. Am I right, or what?

Haruki Murakami

There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.

Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

Richard M. Weaver

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

Richard Brookhiser

The most crucial truths are always rejected before they're accepted. " he says gazing out of space."It's one of our greatest human flaws: arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the universe is unknowable.

He seemed like the type that kept people at arm's length, maybe out of arrogance or maybe from personal choice- either way, I wanted to know him so that those eyes were narrowed and focused solely on me.

R.S Grey

If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

Lennox D.Lampkin

Arrogance is the last thing to die

Bangambiki Habyarimana

For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?

The only sin is pride.

Robert F. Kennedy

Ineptitude and arrogance never mix or match

Vanessa Chilumo

There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.

Brian D. McLaren

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn't been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a dirty room whose bookshelves were crammed with empty bourbon bottles and crucifixes, mute testimony to the limits of literature as a sustaining comfort in life.

Maureen Corrigan

I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she’s a bit full of herself.

Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb.

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that." He paused, and then added gently, "But you assumed it was about you." I finished the beer and sighed. "Arrogance," I said."I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Nikos Kazantzakis

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