Quotes About Arrogance

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Just because you consider yourself a genius doesn't mean you are smart.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments." "Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.