Quotes About Arrogance

My experience as a police inspector has taught me that many people are able to regard themselves with inordinate fondness, no matter what heinous crimes they have committed. They care only about how they look to others, and whether they can get away with it.

If she had been willing to listen, Poirot might have told her that he would be unlikely to cooperate with any man who considered himself to be the cleverest man in England for as long as he, Hercule Poirot, resided in London.

You are the worst kind of liar. You justify your actions. If you see a need, your arrogance precludes you from ever considering that there may be an alternative aside from your scheming and manipulations.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his great sickening cupRecklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

When the white man had warmed himself before the Indians' fire and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the valleys. His hand grasped the eastern and the western sea, and his head rested on the moon.

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.

Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.

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She did what is the most dangerous thing anyone can do in politics; she discoursed without having the most remote acquaintance with the subject; she amateurishly thrust her fingers into every pie, interfering in matters of the utmost moment; she used her overwhelming influence with the King exclusively on behalf of her favorites.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

attitudes toward America. Vainly, I scoured Dreams from My Father for some expression of reverence, even respect, for the country its author would someday lead. Instead, the book criticizes Americans for their capitalism and consumer culture, for despoiling their environment and maintaining antiquated power structures. Traveling abroad, they exhibited "ignorance and arrogance"—the very shortcomings the president's critics assigned to him.