Quotes About Arrogance

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

Too often privilege in Massachusetts was bolstered by class-conscious arrogance tempered only when necessary by corruption. Coolidge was not corrupt. His personal ideals were high. But he was serene in the presence of this corruptible body in Boston even though he put on the incorruptible—a quickening spirit. He played a clean game with the run of the dirty cards!

70. This affectation of a man's own excellency if it be exercised about good things that we have, it is called boasting: if about those things which we would seem to have, it is called arrogance: if about the fame and esteem which we seek with others, it is called vain glory: if about dignities, it is called ambition: if about the undertaking of matters, which are beyond our strength, it is called presumption.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

So removed had the British now become from their Indian subjects, and so dismissive were they of Indian opinion, that they had lost all ability to read the omens around them or to analyse their own position with any degree of accuracy. Arrogance and imperial self-confidence had diminished the desire to seek accurate information or gain any real knowledge of the state of the country.

Empire that was so magnificently strong, so confident in its own strength and brilliance and

What honour is left to us?' asked a Mughal official, 'when we have to take orders from a handful of traders who have not yet learned to wash their bottoms?

A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

unless restrained by checks and guarantees. There is an insolence of wealth, as there is an insolence of rank. A plutocracy might be even far worse than an aristocracy. Aristocrats

God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

The public be damned.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

the stereotypical wealthy, swaggering "ugly Roman" soon became an object of Greek hatred.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

Christians find in God a source of moral strength that helps us to lead better lives than those we would have led without Him, still it would be arrogant and ignorant to claim that unbelievers don't often lead good moral lives—in fact, sometimes lives that put ours to shame.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but in his face. —DIOGENES THE CYNIC

After all, he muttered, what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow whos got delusions of adequacy?

It was silly to suppose that trials only hardened men, automatically making them wise. He knew many who were stupid, arrogant, and mean, in spite of having suffered.

They have decided nothing nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.