Quotes About Arrogance

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

Members of the ruling class are unwilling to admit themselves mistaken.

Dame Alice was suffering from nothing more than an indigestion of self-importance.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

I hate Russian dolls, they're so full of themselves.

People say I'm condescending. That means I talk down to people.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

Even the tiny frog is spoilt by its mouth

He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.

Plenty of people take me for a pompous git way too fond of the sound of his own voice, which is absolutely fine with me. Go ahead and dismiss me; go right ahead and drop your guard.

teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

No one loved Paris better than a true Parisian. No one was prouder of his city than a true Parisian. No one was half so arrogant, so haughty, so conceited, and quite so irresistible. Why

Wad Rayyes, you're a man who talks. rubbish. Your whole brain's in the head of your penis and the head of your penis is as small as your brain.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Whether you're talking about a person or a country, it's okay to be rich and it's okay to be powerful, just as long as you're humble and cooperative. But if you combine being rich and powerful with being arrogant and uncooperative, people won't cut you much slack,

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

Pride will spit in pride's face.