Arrogance Quotes
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)
Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.
Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.
Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".
Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?
The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.
With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.
What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
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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.
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.
There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.
I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.
I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.
What incredible arrogance to believe that we limited human beings can destroy that which we cannot even begin to understand - much less create on our own - and that is earth and all of its glories.