Quotes About Arrogance

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.

Don't be so proud for being educated then other, you will never able to calculate your own hart-beets

We speak of love when we destroy nature.It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.