Arrogance Quotes - Page 4

Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Elton Trueblood

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

David Halberstam

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

David Halberstam

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!

Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

T.S Eliot

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

Dan Jones

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

Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

John Taliaferro

Folly is a child of power.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Stephen L. Carter

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

Charles Dickens

His core business still is self-promotion.

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

Walter Isaacson

One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

Graham Speechley

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

Arrogance doesn't have variety in shades.. Humility has umpteen.

Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.

Some things sound better if they don't come from you.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

Barbara W. Tuchman

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Stephen Mitchell

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snake approached God's image-bearer, directing her as though he had dominion over her (when it was, in fact, the other way around). He treated her as an animal, and she didn't even see it. At the same time, the old dragon appealed to her to transcend the limits of her dignity. If she would reach for the forbidden, she would be "like God, knowing good and evil." He suggested that she was more than a human; she was a goddess.

Russell D. Moore

Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.

Cixin Liu

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

What causes all this?""Pride. What else?

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

Booth Tarkington

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are administered by local commanders, who liaise with the national offices for information exchange, guidance and policy decisions. Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.

What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

Aaron B. Powell

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Aniruddha Sastikar

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cyrano de Bergerac

The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn’t build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.

Ben Witherington III

How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and satisfaction.

Barbara Hodgson

I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.

Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If it’s not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I’m interested in but don’t yet know. It’s when they explain things to me I know and they don’t that the conversation goes awry.

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