Quotes About Arrogance

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

To Trump, being a billionaire means plating everything in gold and slapping his name everywhere in huge block letters. It means that he gets to say whatever pops into his head and never has to say he is sorry.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

I'm not that bad, " he said. "I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big—

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.

It was a different feeling: it is hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are wrong, by betting against his representation of the world.

Cabdrivers did not believe that they understood as much as learned people—really, they were not the experts and they knew it. Nobody knew anything, but elite thinkers thought that they knew more than the rest because they were elite thinkers, and if you're a member of the elite, you automatically know more than the nonelite.

Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.

cocksure prophet. Where I beg to differ with the great

Per lo studioso e leader religioso arabo 'AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« T?lib (che non è un mio parente), mantenere le distanze da una persona ignorante equivale a stare in compagnia di un saggio.

Epistemic arrogance bears a double effect: we overestimate what we know, and underestimate uncertainty, by compressing the range of possible uncertain states (i.e., by reducing the space of the unknown).

Accept that being human involves some amount of epistemic arrogance in running your affairs. Do not be ashamed of that. Do not try to always withhold judgment—opinions are the stuff of life. Do not try to avoid predicting—yes, after this diatribe about prediction I am not urging you to stop being a fool. Just be a fool in the right places.*

I recall how we were taught in school how far more civilized and wiser we were than those in the Balkan communities

True, our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.

the second lesson is more aggressive: you can actually take advantage of the problem of prediction and epistemic arrogance!

We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we actually do

our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.

companies foolishly believed that all they needed was to win the majority. No, you idiots.

The house was so proud of itself that you wanted to make a lot of noise as you passed, and maybe even throw a rock or two.

to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man's own righteousness.

Robinson's fierce quest for spiritual purity had been tempered by the realization that little was to be gained by arrogance and anger.