Quotes About Arrogance

He who exalts himself shall be humbled; and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When

Professor Sengupta had the self-satisfied habit common to many academics of pretending an intellectual equality with his audience in order to happily demonstrate his own superiority.

You're a bastard, I said. Uhtred, he began, but could find nothing more to say. You're a piece of weasel-shit, I said, you're an earsling. I'm a king, he said, trying to regain his dignity. So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne.

The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool.

Arrogance is all in a young warrior

I was arrogant that day, arrogant and confident, because there are times when men need to see arrogance

And in the darkness, as I listen to the sea beat on the sand and the wind fret at the thatch, I remember what it was like to be young and tall and strong and fast. And arrogant.

I was hated, and I knew it. Part of it was my fault, I am arrogant.

I had broken three Saxon shield-walls and buried Hywelbane to her hilt in my country's enemies before I had been elected to Mithras's service, but all Lancelot had ever done was boast and posture.

In our age, mankind collectively has given itself over to a degree of hubris surpassing everything known in former ages.

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.

in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

It is outrageous arrogance for any one faith in God to believe it is the be-all and end-all of religion. That all other faiths are wrong.

I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.

It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick falls across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

Father, Your Word clearly states that You will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. You will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless. (Isa. 13:11)

Pride is the archenemy of ministry.

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

If you request for a little time to fulfill a commitment, you're accused of being arrogant. I repeat, I've achieved nothing to be arrogant about.

I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.