Quotes About Arrogance

It was foolish to trust in luck once; twice was arrogance of the worst kind.

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

There's nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favor.

She was quivering with self-importance, like a small enraged football.

You cannot have both. Riches and purity do not match. Humility hates pride." He paced in a circle. "You have been warned.

Wenig Bildung macht Einbildung!

Yet because of the ignorance and stupidity of so many of those about him, he was able to consider himself at least fairly learned.

So, while driving in the car with the person sitting right next to us, we think about other things. We aren't interested in him anymore. What arrogance! The person sitting there beside is really a mystery! We only have the impression that we know her, but we don't know anything yet.

I'm better than Jon Jones. I'm better than Sean Combs. I am even better than John Holmes.

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

One day, kid, you'll be willing to mortgage your fucking soul for somebody." "I don't think you should say fucking around me. In case you forgot, I'm only fourteen, And news flash, dude,I've got no soul. There aren't any banks. And there isn't any currency. Ergo. Never. Going. To. Happen." "I'm not sure you could be any more full of yourself." I cut him a smug look. "I'm willing to try.

Oh, the cockiness of youth. How I missed mine.

When man thinks he knows God's course better than God himself is when hundreds die—

Nulla di strano in questo: lui è freddo e arrogante. Ma anche ricco, forte, brillante nonché un enigma ambulante. La maggior parte delle donne sembra trovarlo anche sexy da morire. Grazie al cielo, io non la penso come loro. Io non amo il pericolo. Preferisco un uomo dotato di una forte fibra morale. E alla fibra Barrons si avvicina solo quando va dal droghiere a comprare i cereali.

tiny mortals tampering with chariots of the gods.

Self-confidence is the expression of stupidity.

What really stopped me was that there was no way to try out for Mensa without looking conceited.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.