Quotes About Arrogance

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!

People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.

[H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Lissy always thought she knew everything.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

leathery tan face and eyes popping from white rings of flesh left by tanning goggles, had his head so far up his ass that he needed a snorkel to breathe. At least most thought so.

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Mientras más lees te percatas con mayor claridad de la estupidez de los otros: te tornas agresivo, extraño y desembocas tú mismo en la imbecilidad. Lunático, raro, mamón, pedante, extraño son algunos de los adjetivos preferidos de los vecinos para referirse a mi persona. ¿Cómo lo sé? Alguna vez los he escuchado por allí murmurando en los pasillos.

My garden is a place of commitment and neglect, of arrogance and humility. It is a place of taking stock and of deep silence—a place of contemplation. And so for me over time it has become a place of grace.

If there's one thing I hate about religion books, it's that arrogant attitude of smug satisfaction that we get when we think we've produced the ultimate answers to all the deep questions that have bothered the greatest thinkers of the ages. If the answers were so simple, those questions wouldn't still be with us.

It was, Jelena though, another kind of arrogance to believe you could understand the way the world was made. It could not be done, there was too much. You needed to be open to it, though, to what your life gave you and demanded.

the religious course left you with arrogant superiors and surrounded by frustrated women. The struggles for trivial advantage in a closed-off, overwrought retreat could create hatreds and rage fiercer than on a battlefield, and they festered like untreated wounds.

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.

Whites acted in a superior manner for so long that it was difficult for them to even recognize their cultural and spiritual arrogance, blatant as it was to African Americans.

Sometimes I'll make a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible.

Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.