Quotes About Arrogance

I pitied the French for their naivete in believing that they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient, imagining the countries it wanted to exploit. I was maddened by my helplessness before the Auteur's imaginations and machinations. His arrogance marked something new in the world, for this was the first war where the losers would write history instead of the victors.

He was attired like an asshole, which is to say that he wore the long black tails, gray slacks, and top hat of an English gentleman or a nineteenth-century European nobleman, their refined manners and exquisite fashions suiting them perfectly for overseeing genocidal empires that looted nonwhite countries, enslaving and/or massacring their inhabitants, and sanctifying the results with the name "civilization.

was there ever a country that coined so many "super" terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?

A small man is like a small dog, always barking about what he can do.

The fool doesn't think anything well done except what he did or what he is doing.

The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool.

The reward of the fool is that they make you feel as if you were God.

Those who are trying to impress others must puff themselves up.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Mitch Rapp)

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

It is well known in the legal profession that many judges, upon ascending the bench, think they are three steps closer to God.

but we were given this wisdom because God chose us to become Christians, to be rescued from sin and hellfire through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Knowing this, there is no room for arrogance, but we are grateful to God for our salvation, and we labor so that others may be saved as well.

The arrogant cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who do wrong. (Psalm 5:5)

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

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

What causes all this?" "Pride. What else?

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youÂ're better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.