Quotes About Arrogance

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

Me and modesty don't mix.

J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.

We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who, through lack of moral fibre, fail to live up to the reputation which is theirs already.

Pride is a dangerous indulgence.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker.

On our hunger to control and know everything humans break and spoil

When you're a member of the privileged group, you don't take kindly to someone telling you that you can't do something

That's the problem with men with money. They think they can do anything they want and get away with it.

Those who define themselves by their sense of superiority will live in a world governed not by justice but by persecution, one in which the tables may turn on them without a moment's notice.

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud

Jack, the world is full of people who can only feel big by making other people look small, and the bigger the target, the better they feel about it.

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud, Foley thought.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.

How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those Christians not defiled a civilization too advanced for their arrogant little minds to understand.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious, and arrogant. Nobody paid us any attention, so we paid very good attention to ourselves. Our limitations were not known to us—not then.

The constantness, varietylessness, the sheer weight of sameness drove him to despair and froze his imagination. To be required to sleep with the same woman forever was a curious and unnatural idea to him; to be expected to dredge up enthusiasms for old acts, and routine ploys; he wondered at the arrogance of the female.

The girl's face looks greedy, haughty and very lazy. The cream-at-the-top-of-the-milkpail face of someone who will never work for anything; someone who picks up things lying on other people's dressers and is not embarrassed when found out. It is the face of a sneak who glides over to your sink to rinse the fork you have laid by her plate. An inward face ---whatever it sees is its own self. You are there, it says, because I am looking at you.

Easy, I thought. Everything is so easy for them. They think they own the world.

rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."b

The characteristic tone of the '60s was that of overweening confidence: we knew just how to fix the world. It was this note of unmerited arrogance that partly accounts for the reactionary backlash that followed; if the Left is to recover its fortunes, some modesty will be in order.