Quotes About Arrogance

Overconfidence will negate our technological advantage faster than anything the other guy could do.

He's the sort of man who wants power. He doesn't have it, but he thinks he's entitled to it by birthright. He's incapable of earning what he wants, so he wants what he hasn't earned. The sort of man who, if he wants something, thinks it's all right to take it.

You don't know what you're talking about," he says. "And you shouldn't talk about things you know nothing about.

Anyone who is as good-looking as Jace is usually completely out of touch with reality. It's like they think their looks give them the right to just go around saying whatever they want to say, and doing whatever they want to do. As if the fact that they're six foot two and broad-shouldered with dark hair and gorgeous deep-blue eyes gives them the right to get away with anything.

Some misguided scientists and professors of academe possess a kind of arrogance. By misguided we mean those who are content with the extent of their formal knowledge without being characterized by its inner meaning. There is often a lack of humility in science and academia. To them, their intellectual-linear paradigms are the one true way to perceive reality.

British Society during the time of Crowley's life was repressed, inhibited, homophobic, arrogant, and thoroughly kept in check. Along came Aleister Crowley, a giant of an intellectual, a man who challenged all 'established' morals. In a similar manner, Crowley was very much like another antinomian Oscar Wilde.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

Timely Rain In the jungles of flaming ego, May there be cool iceberg of bodhicitta. On the racetrack of bureaucracy, May there be the walk of the elephant. May the sumptuous castle of arrogance Be destroyed by vajra confidence. In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

are deluded and led astray by rank, blood thirsty blatherskites.

It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.

The pride blurs us the eye.It is our alcohol. (L'orgueil nous brouille l'oeil. Il est notre alcool)

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man to have so inexhaustible a subject.

You dogs!" said the Marquis, but smoothly, and with an unchanged front, except as to the spots on his nose: "I would ride over any of you very willingly, and exterminate you from the earth. If I knew which rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently near it, he should be crushed under the wheels.

Sir Leicester általában önelégült hangulatban van, s ritkán unatkozik. Ha semmi mást nem tud kezdeni, mindig elt?n?dhet saját nagyszer?ségén. Nagy el?nyt jelent az embernek, ha ilyen kimeríthetetlen tárggyal rendelkezik.

O! there are many kinds of pride," said Biddy, looking full at me and shaking her head; "pride is not all of one kind—

You must know,' said Estella, condescending to me as a beautiful and brilliant woman might, 'that I have no heart

So, Mr. Bounderby threw on his hat—he always threw it on, as expressing a man who had been far too busily employed in making himself, to acquire any fashion of wearing his hat—and with his hands in his pockets, sauntered out into the hall. 'I never wear gloves,' it was his custom to say. 'I didn't climb up the ladder in them.—Shouldn't be so high up, if I had.' Being

We Britons had at that time particularly settled that it was treasonable to doubt our having and our being the best of every thing; otherwise, while I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and smoky.

Pride never admits its failures. Instead, the prideful person continues to push forward, blindly seeking self-gratification.