Quotes About Arrogance

He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.

Some girls are so vain!

Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I think!

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears.

There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be.

La ciencia peca de arrogancia al creer que, cuanto más desarrollamos la tecnología y más aprendemos, mejor será nuestra vida.

T)he downfall of the wise and the mighty comes not from being strong or wise, but from thinking you are stronger and wiser than you truly are, than any being can truly be.

It has driven men to extremes, to the impious arrogance of believing they alone can comprehend the vast mysteries of Scripture, let alone the mind of God. Such people are incapable of understanding even their own minds, for they confuse their own needs, for certainty or power, with God's voice speaking to them.

Powerful men who believe their wealth is threatened generally are dangerous.

The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that belived they were eternal.

Everyone thinks they know so goddamned much about everything and no one knows fuck all about anything.

Kaikki luulevat tietävänsä niin saamarin paljon kaikesta, mutta kukaan ei tiedä mistään mitään.

Stranahan told her not to mistake arrogance for pride. A guy like Chaz can revive his ego with the palm of his hand.

Bode Gazzer was five feet six and had never forgiven his parents for it. He wore three-inch snakeskin shitkickers and walked with a swagger that suggested not brawn so much as hemorrhoidal tribulation.

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

esta mezcla combustible de ignorancia y poder nos explotará en la cara.

El reduccionismo no parece conceder un respeto suficiente a la complejidad del universo. A algunos se les antoja como un híbrido curioso de arrogancia y pereza intelectual.

Al parecer anhelamos un privilegio, merecido no por nuestros esfuerzos, sino por nacimiento, digamos que por el mero hecho de ser humanos y de haber nacido en la Tierra. Podríamos llamarla la noción antropocéntrica, <>. Está noción alcanza su culminación en la idea de que fuimos creados a imagen y semejanza de Dios: <> El filósofo griego del siglo VI a. J.C. Jenófanes comprendió la arrogancia de esta perspectiva: <

to alter what She has created is an astounding display of arrogance and foolishness.

When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.

She had thought she could make a difference. She had thought she could drive back the advancing horde—by the sheer weight of her will, if need be. It was arrogance on her part. The forces of freedom were lost.

They think they are smart and powerful because they have contrived to use my gift to put up the boundary to lure us to this place. What they have actually done is to attract lightning, and that lightning is about to strike them down.