Arrogance Quotes

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

I'm too old to know everything

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.

I say this as a big sister in the faith hoping someone might learn an easier way. Arrogance does not bode well. It attracts the rod of God.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

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

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

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