Quotes About Arrogance

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

That's what makes me insufferable to be around, is that most of my life I have assumed that everyone wants to see me perform and do things all the time.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

Of the nine million Harlequin Romance and Silhouette Ecstasy books for women today, sold and read by the ton, no hero appears whose primary quality isn't arrogance. If any man appears at first helpful, cheerful, and polite, he's the villain. The man who at first appears hopelessly mean and insensitive, he's the hero. It's cornography. Margaret Mitchell's inspiration for Rhett Butler was Valentino in that tango. It's a twentieth-century malaise.

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 towards God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Guess you play the part of God long enough, you begin to believe your own method acting.

Happiness? Do not make me laugh. The rich are not happy. I have yet to meet a single really rich happy man or woman—and I have met many rich people. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, and so insistent, they nearly always decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation breeds paranoia and arrogance. And loneliness. And rage that you have only so many years left to enjoy rolling in the sand you have piled up.

Whenever we are sure that we are among the righteous, we immediately find ourselves among the arrogant.

The most frequent weak points in man are, from time to time, always the same: pride, money, and lust.

Es esta una época en la que, bajo la influencia de tales enseñanzas, que son el fondo de la educación clásica, cada uno ha querido situarse fuera y por encima de la humanidad, para arreglarla, organizarla e instituirla a su gusto.

The academy is, perhaps unsurprisingly, full of people who think that they are smart enough to run the lives of others. They are not. Hence the subtitle of this volume: "What Your Professors Won't Tell You.

The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.

Không có gì th?m h?i h?n m?t ?ám c??ng hào t?nh l? t? hoàn thu? cho mình trong ti?c buffet c?a th? tr??ng

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

No, not like me. He's no better than the other Fellmottes. Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

4. Politicians: Insufferable egotists pretending to be "public servants.