Quotes About Arrogance

A healthy skepticism is good, even God-given. However, a need to cynically dismiss anything we cannot personally verify is arrogance. God

young people...who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the sensibilities of others.

You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance.

You don't have anything, you don't know anything, you're just a noise like a fart in somebody's pants," Segura said.

As with all megalomaniacs, he had no handles. He was the type of man the Spanish call sin dios, sin verguenza, without God or shame.

In the world of the very rich, obtuseness may not quite rise to the level of a virtue, but it's often the norm.

a monstrous bastion of arrogant elegance

It sat proudly atop the hill behind wrought-iron gates, with smooth lawns, tennis courts, and shiny classroom buildings, a monstrous bastion of arrogant elegance, glowing like a phoenix above the ramshackle neighborhood of Chicken Hill.

Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

We have a name for people who create universes - they're called gods. There is no greater hubris than to think that we could take the place of godlike implications.

A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.

Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

My way of thinking is better than yours.

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.

When stardom gets on your head, you don't even realise.