Quotes About Arrogance

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

The arrogance of power must be undermined.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Unfortunately, generations of people have been told by their political leaders that they are more exceptional human beings than the rest of the world - this sense of privilege is incredibly toxic.

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.

A person with a big ego usually knows very little.

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.

Divine open doors are not for the arrogant, adulterers and wasters, they are only meant for the humble that will be wise with the opportunity and blessing that comes from them.

Your ego is laughing at you behind your back.

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.

Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.