Quotes About Arrogance

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

striking—a guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

A guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.

What gives you the right. Yes. To speak to a woman in your private Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You feel yourself empowered Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you say so yourself. To strut. To posture. To "perform." To "Call me in here Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â Eh? You say that higher education is a joke. And treat it as such, you treat it as such. And confess to a taste to play the Patriarch in your class. To grant this. To deny that. To embrace your students.

He spends a lot of time telling you how smart he is, which is odd because, if you're truly all that bright, people can usually figure it out on their own.

What they do at 6:00 a.m. is anyone's guess. I only know that they're incredibly self-righteous about it and talk about the dawn as if it's a personal reward, bestowed on account of their great virtue.

It's a pretty grim world when I can't even feel superior to a toddler.

Disagreeing has become an easy way to feel better about yourself for being smarter than everybody else. I call it the assholier-than-thou syndrome.

A fool who knew a little was far more dangerous than someone who at least had the wit to admit he knew nothing.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get.

La obsesión de colocarnos en el centro de todo es la ruina tanto de los teólogos como de los zoólogos.

How many times,' Samad growled, after watching his son purchase the autobiography of Malcolm X, 'is it necessary to say thank you in a single transaction? Thank you when you hand the book over, thank you when she receives it, thank you when she tells you the price, thank you when you sign the cheque, thank you when she takes it! They call it English politeness when it is simply arrogance. The only being who deserves this kind of thanks is Allah himself!

Her subject was pride, in all its forms.

But the whole town got vain over it

He figures that it makes a big man out of him to be passing and passing laws and rules. He thinks that makes him look more like a king. Long time ago he done passed all the laws that could do anybody good. So now he sits up and studies up laws to do hurt and harm, and we're the only folks in Egypt he got the nerve to put 'em on. He aims to keep us down so he'll always have somebody to wipe his feet on. He brags that him and the Egyptian nation is eating high on the hog now.

And she declared her first novel a manifesto against the "arrogance" of whites assuming that "black lives are only defensive reactions to white actions.

Freedom, she wrote in Moses, Man of the Mountain, "was something internal…. The man himself must make his own emancipation." And she declared her first novel a manifesto against the "arrogance" of whites assuming that "black lives are only defensive reactions to white actions." Her strategy was not calculated to please.

Public schoolboys are brought up to assume they should lead society, and Trotskyists know they are right about absolutely everything.

I consider myself a very confident person, but I don't actually think I am big-headed because my confidence doesn't affect me.

Pride is an amazing thing.

It's very hard to argue with someone who thinks he is God because he makes a lot of money.