Quotes About Arrogance

A humble person rarely stumbles, the old ones say, because such a person walks with face toward the Earth and can see the path ahead. On the other hand, the arrogant man who walks with his head high to bask in the glory of the moment will stumble often because he is more concerned with the moment than what lays ahead.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Oakheart, of all cats! He thinks he's StarClan's gift to the Clans.

There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looked around arrogantly. "Now then," he said, "where's that damned cat?

It's alright to have a good opinion of yourself, but we Americans are so smug with our cockiness, we somehow feel that just because we are Americans, we can whip our weight in wildcats.

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element.

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

But if we take the energies that make for aspiration and remove God from the picture, replacing him with our own crudely sketched self-portrait, we end up with ugly arrogance.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of 'anti-consumerism,' combined with a hatred for all things normal, dictate their every action.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

Most entrepreneurs, when they become successful, they turn into idiots... It's the same thing with rockstars and entrepreneurs: big money and big egos.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.