Quotes About Arrogance

Opparizio is a perfect target: rich, arrogant and Republican.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.

You know what's wrong with scientific power?" Malcolm said. "It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails.

You know what's wrong with scientific power?" Malcolm said. "It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails." Hammond

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. For these same apes to imagine they can stabilize this atmosphere is arrogant beyond belief. They can't control the climate.

He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds—and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

They were seduced by their own technology.

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenially rich people are.

He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it. Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.

God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.

He could see himself selling himself as a compelling mutation, a young god, proud to the point of sexy arrogance of his anatomical deviation: ninety percent thriving muscled man-flesh and ten percent glorious blindingly white angel wing. Baby, these feathers are going to tickle you halfway to heaven, and this man-part is going to take you the rest of the way.

An intensely competitive young man who believed he was superior to others, Trump accepted that people would seek advantages wherever they could find them.

This conceit went hand in glove with the investment bankers' belief that they could control their destiny, which, as we shall see, they couldn't.

The professors argued that Netscape courted disaster from the start, by taunting Microsoft. "Mooning the Giant

The idiot is bound by his pride," he says. "It always has to be his way.

Well, for one, you walk around like you're so much better than everyone else. We're all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin' in your eyes, I guess. You're the high and mighty one and I ain't fit to drink your piss.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I look upon pride as a sin.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.