Quotes About Arrogance

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

The arrogance of liberal progressives is that they're just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and the Castros of the world, and if we give them all the control, and they control your life, they're going to do a great job of it. Well, it just isn't true.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.

Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

Everyone's come up against a snob or a know-all.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

Believe me, I have met so many people who absolutely have no reason to feel important, and they do!

That said, I'm also sensitive to the limitations of the scientific-materialist perspective and believe that nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.

La presunción es nuestra enfermedad natural y primera. La más frágil y discutible de las criaturas es el hombre, y a la vez la más orgullosa

There is a plague on Man: his opinion that he knows something.

The natural, original distemper of Man is presumption.

could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition.

It's so easy to refuse to help others when you feel they were irresponsible. It's tempting to pass judgment and think you've done better for yourself on your own. But don't be so arrogant to think you got where you are by your own actions. Contrary to popular wisdom, you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you had help.

En este mundo, si los cabrones volaran, nublarían el sol.

The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts-- and the purity of their intentions

The greatest enemy to love is your pride

Vanity is man's love affair with himself.