Quotes About Arrogance

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang, ' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

I've seen plenty of young lads elevated into the senior squad acting like they have made it.

Whitaker is nothing without me. He can't fill an arena or stadium. He's nobody.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.