Quotes About Arrogance

Communism, in particular, was attractive not so much to oppressed workers, its hypothetical beneficiaries, but to intellectuals—to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right. But the promised utopia never emerged.

Instead, the entire team degenerates. The newcomer remains cynical, arrogant and neurotic. He complains. He shirks. He misses important meetings. His low-quality work causes delays, and must be redone by others.

El comunismo, en particular, no resultaba tan atractivo a los trabajadores oprimidos, sus hipotéticos beneficiarios, como a los intelectuales, a aquellos cuyo arrogante orgullo en el intelecto les aseguraba que siempre llevaban razón.

partir de ese punto, desarrollé mis principales conclusiones morales. Apunta hacia arriba. Presta atención. Arregla lo que puedas arreglar. No seas arrogante. Esfuérzate por ser humilde, porque el orgullo totalitario se manifiesta en la intolerancia, la opresión, la tortura y la muerte.

to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

mejorar tu vida implica asumir mucha responsabilidad, lo que requiere más esfuerzo y cuidado que estar sumido estúpidamente en el dolor y mantenerse en la arrogancia, el engaño y el resentimiento.

This kind of theorizing is particularly attractive to people who are smart but lazy. Cynicism serves as an aid, too, as does arrogance. The new adherents will be taught that mastering such a game constitutes education, and will learn to criticize alternative theories, different methods, and increasingly, even the idea of fact itself.

After that comes the arrogance and sense of superiority that inevitably accompanies the production of successful lies (hypothetically successful lies—and that is one of the greatest dangers: apparently everyone is fooled, so everyone is stupid, except me. Everyone is stupid and fooled, by me—so I can get away with whatever I want). Finally, there is the proposition: "Being itself is susceptible to my manipulations. Thus, it deserves no respect.

Consider, as well, that you may be blocked in your progress not because you lack opportunity, but because you have been too arrogant to make full use of what already lies in front of you.

The faculty of rationality inclines dangerously to pride: all I know is all that needs to be known. Pride falls in love with its own creations, and tries to make them absolute.

In other words, you decide to act as if existence might be justified by its goodness—if only you behaved properly. And it is that decision, that declaration of existential faith, that allows you to overcome nihilism, and resentment, and arrogance.

It was from this that I drew my fundamental moral conclusions. Aim up. Pay attention. Fix what you can fix. Don't be arrogant in your knowledge. Strive for humility, because totalitarian pride manifests itself in intolerance, oppression

Advice is what you get when the person you're talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away. Advice is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in the superiority of his or her own intelligence. If you weren't so stupid, after all, you wouldn't have your stupid problems.

If you are the sort of king who can not stand the fool, then you're a tyrant

YOU GET A GOOD COMBINATION OF RESENTMENT AND ARROGANCE GOING YOU CAN BE SURE THAT YOU'LL END UP IN SOMETHING THAT IS PRETTY MUCH INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM HELL AND ALSO THAT FEELS LIKE IT LASTS FOR AN ETERNITY...

Mein Mann ist zwar Inhaber einer Bank, aber wir sind sehr arm‹, sagte sie, derart unverschämt, dass ich Lust hatte, sie erschießen zu lassen.

Cómo iba yo a creer en el pecado, una idea tan hija del orgullo? Si Dios es creador del Universo entero, ¿puede sentirse ofendido por una sabandija que le salió mal y que araña la superficie de un pequeño planeta? Hace falta tener una exageradísima idea de lo que es el hombre para creerle capaz de ofender a un infinito creador.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

The difference between God and a US senator? God doesn't think he's a senator.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Humility was a virtue that the Lakota of old expected their leaders to possess. A quiet, humble person, we believed, was aware of other people and other things. An arrogant, boastful man was only aware of himself. Interestingly, our methods of selecting leaders today seem to favor the arrogant and boastful.