Arrogance Quotes

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

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

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

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

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

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

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

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

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.