Quotes About Arrogance

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

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.

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.