Quotes About Arrogance

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of people - makes it very exclusive. Let's get rid of that. If it's truly important, people should be excited about it.

If I see the... Hulk Hogan or the Donald Trump, I break their back - make them humble.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

I'm a Congressman, and can do whatever I want

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?

The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.