Arrogance Quotes - Page 6

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom

My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

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!

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.

Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.

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

I wonder why the normies get so touchy-feely.

If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true!" --Ann Newton/Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

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.

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

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.

The only sin is pride.

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.

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

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.

Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

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.

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.

Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

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.

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

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.

You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me.But if you ever deliberately provoke me, in a way trying to hurt me, I'm so worried that you will die, or injured with heart full of revenge.The kind of revenge which you will never be able to fully retaliate, a revenge that will only add to next innocent victims..in between you and me.

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.

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

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

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.

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.

Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.

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.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Without humor, we’d all be what we’re laughing at. Without arrogance, we’d be humiliated to admit we already are.

A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others.

Greatest irony of life is living in self glory while glorifying God which is the ultimate joy is left behind.

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.

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

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.

Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

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.

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.

Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.