Quotes About Arrogance

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.

I swear I will never trust Edward again. This is not kingly, this is not as Arthur of Camelot. This is behaviour as base as an archer's bastard and I cannot meet his eyes when I see him stuffing his mouth at King Louis' table and pocketing the gold forks.

Eyes downcast, she went past me without a glance. Dismissively her gown brushed my knees as if I should have drawn further back, out of her way, as if everyone should always step back to let Anne through. Then she was gone and as I looked up I met the Queen's eye. She looked blankly at me as I might look at a rivalry of birds fluttering in a dovecote. It was not as if it mattered. They would all be eaten in time.

And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool can be jumped up, but a fool can also be thrown down; and who is going to catch me then?

Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.

I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

I am wiser than that fellow, anyhow. Because neither of us, I dare say, knows anything of great value; but he thinks he knows a thing when he doesn't; whereas I neither know it in fact, nor think that I do. At any rate, it appears that I am wiser than he in just this one small respect: if I do not know something, I do not think that I do.

When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me.

Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding.

there is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offences, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom; and he who is under the influence of the latter fancies that he knows all about matters of which he knows nothing.

And surely it is the most blameworthy [b]ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.

Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.

They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.

Like many arrogant men, Proyas thought his insults an extension of his honesty.

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not. It comes of a pitiful need to believe in one's own worth when one is hollow within. We are all worthy. And none of us are, all at once. Once that is acknowledged, that hollow, howling space may be filled with understanding.

You are just landmark stupid, aren't you? Has Guinness called yet about that world record?

Goliath fell to a slingshot and a stone. and the Library is a lumbering giant, dying of its own arrogance; it has to change or fall. We have the tools. The will. The knowledge.