Quotes About Arrogance

Life isn't like the movies. People don't change overnight. people don't go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don't suddenly give in when they've spent years taking out. No doesn't magically become a Yes.

than coasting along as a self-impressed elitist behind a desk.

Whenever man tries to become God, it is a tragedy.

A scholar who thinks s/he knows everything is a false scholar.

there is no other profession in the history of man which shows his evil intent than politics, but this he already knows to be true, except for the fact that his emotions and ambitions won't allow him to admit because of his blind arrogance and stupidity.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

Some people confuse confidence with arrogance. There's no doubt in the business world there are a few big egos and I think arrogance can get in the way. But if you have the confidence to go to your higher superior and say this is wrong, it can make a difference.

Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

In the E.U., there are always morally superior people who think they have to educate the others.

I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.

Great wealth creates an arrogance and, to be quite frank, a god complex in some people that they start feeling like they can do no wrong, they own people, they're superior to other people.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

Honestly, I was a little bit arrogant because I came in and thought it was going to be easy and that I'd be on television in a year, no problem. Then you realize how many different things it takes to become a successful superstar, and it really is a rude awakening.

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Chernobyl' is supposedly about the lies, arrogance, and suppression of criticism under Communism, but the mini-series portrays life in the Soviet Union in the 1980s as inaccurately, and melodramatically, as it portrays the effects of radiation.