Quotes About Arrogance

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble

The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.