Quotes About Arrogance

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

angrier and angrier, that he had to do such things because men were filled with arrogant greed, because some wished to rule with neither the wit nor the self-knowledge to see their inadequacies—and how many of their people would die.

The big problem with omnipotence is that it leads so easily to overconfidence….

How can we think we're so important the world reacts to our whims or decisions or mistakes?

They thought the Allies would be desperate to "buy" their reactor research in the postwar era. Apparently they were not moved to check to see whether this arrogance was founded, and the depression and desperation one hears them going through after Hiroshima and Nagasaki reveals their sudden irrelevance. As Otto Hahn chided them right after they learned of Hiroshima: "If the Americans have a uranium bomb, then you're all second-raters." The

Maybe it was common for intelligent beings anywhere to think of themselves as the crown of creation—The People—and everybody else as a smart animal at best.

It's such a huge arrogance to love someone, and there's too much of it around. There's too much love in this world. Sometimes I think that's what heavens is-- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

Arrogance is pride's calling card, and crowds everything with Self. Gratitude is humility's calling card, and is the space left inside for love.

You can't hate love, Karla,' I said, laughing gently, and trying to lighten her mood. 'Maybe not, but you sure as hell can be sick of it. It's such a huge arrogance, to love someone, and there's too much of it around. There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is—a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

but he boasted about the buildings as if they were his own design.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.

I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.

I am a god of professional wrestling. You should worship every step I take and every word that comes out of my mouth.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.