Quotes About Arrogance

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Derision is the refuge of threatened ignorance, after all.

Many folks describe arrogant people as jerks, idiots, creeps, and much worse. A person that treats you like you are stupid and says the only right way is their way – even when it clearly is not – is arrogant. They try to make up for their own lack of confidence by hammering away at others.

Once you'd been with Freddie, you wouldn't go anywhere else.' (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God's gift to women.

The greatest danger that success brings, aside from arrogance, is the fear of losing what has been gained. The courage and willingness to risk that breed success are endangered after success is obtained."26

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

A shithead's a guy who sees a pile of shit on the ground, knows it's shit, but steps in it anyway. Go play with your fucking shark, shithead.

It is tough to be forgiven because when one has been forgiven, it is hard to look down one's arrogant nose at anybody else. I'm

C.I.A. had "a culture of insularity." The attitude they projected was "Nobody should tell us what to do. We got it. We are special

We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians never knew of evil done in their own names by others are commonplace. It is the age of unbridled arrogance and video showmanship, where the challenge ' prove what I knew and when I knew it ' has become a national motto.

Ah, you poor fools, walking so tall and haughty with your guns and your sticks and your wide belts full of gear like the second coming of Batman, sitting in your little cars full of mechanized fear as you reach for your little radios at the first sign of anything more worrisome than a jaywalker.

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Arrogance and stupidity is a deadly combination.

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. —Jefferson Davis

the mind that has convinced itself of its own superiority is incapable of humility, and in the absence of humility, it is incapable of growth.

With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

'This guy's a clown! He's just all talk!' I've heard that many times in my career. And then they're sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

People care when service is sluggish and comes from an arrogance and complacency that often besets those who know they can never lose their jobs.

I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk into Kansas City and put up the worst football game of my existence. And I've always been this brash, arrogant kind of guy.

The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.