Quotes About Arrogance

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

I think I had become over-confident in my approach towards my work and with people around me. I admit that I'd started sounding pompous and self-obsessed.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.

The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

hate me, too . . . because I'm always right. I understand how painful that must be for others who aren't always right.

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.

It is an honor to be despised by fools.

All sufferings come from false pride.

Perseverance is for people with belief in their own ability, complacency is one arrogant step ahead.... for people with no clue of others' ability.

Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God's mercy is not great enough? . . .

The three greatest dolts in the world: Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and I.

poor as Soso, found themselves among the 'arrogant sons of wealthy parents.27 We felt like the chosen few,' wrote Iremashvili, because the seminary was 'the source of Georgian intellectual life, with its historical grounds in a seemingly perfect civilisation'.

Bums panhandled instead of getting a job. People dropped their trash on the sidewalk or tossed it from their car windows. All these actions said the same thing: my shit is more important than yours. The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

You've got a big ego, Fuentes." "That's not all I've got.