Quotes About Arrogance

She also set fire to a tall cactus because it was giving her a superior look and she felt like it.

Wow, you have a very confused and amusing view of this situation," Peril said. "We're not your prisoners. You couldn't take me prisoner even with an army of IceWings. Not even if all of them had arrogant foreheads like yours. There isn't actually a world in which you need to decide whether to 'release' me. I released myself a long time ago, but thanks anyway.

So let me get this straight," she said. "You're telling me nothing about why you're here, but you expect me to bring you into our kingdom and buy you a drink. NightWings really do think highly of themselves, don't they?" "What if I bought you that drink?" he offered.

YES I SAID LIGHTNING! COWER BEFORE ME, BORING NORMAL DRAGONS!

Instead he showed up once a week, blathered on for hours using the biggest, most made-up words possible, and then slithered back to his lab, leaving all of us even dumber than we were before.

but the truth is, the more hours I spend in contemplation, the less I know about God-and the more I realize how arrogant it is for us poor humans to squeeze the Infinite into our limited definitions.

Pride, we know, is an inflated view of ourselves—a false advertising campaign promoting ourselves because we suspect that others won't accept who we really are.2 Pride is actually a lie about our own identity or achievements. To be proud is to live in a world propped up with falsehoods about ourselves, taking credit where credit isn't due.

Ignorance and ego, what a lethal combo.

Thus, BAD. The United States especially overflows with it because of all countries it is the most addicted to self-praise and complacency - even more than France.

When man makes himself his own Sun—that is, his own God—then he destroys his world. As ex-communist Whittaker Chambers observed, Marx and his minions were merely echoing the first mistake of man, initiated way back in the Garden of Eden: ye shall be as gods.

A lesson to people who think that, just because they're a little smarter and luckier than ordinary people, they can do as they please.' Lisa

And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don't bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous.

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

So goes the world: people talk as if they knew everything, and when you dare to ask, they do not know anything.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Depay walks around like he has won 10 European Cups. This attitude... what's it all about?