Quotes About Arrogance

It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not.

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. But so many cling to their emptiness, and I fear that they may yet prevail.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches.

People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small. - Grady Adams - Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

The hatred of truth is a vice [...] From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.

Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

I hate the people who think we're just part of the great unwashed

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

No one's more dangerous than a man who's convinced of his own moral superiority.

It's the incessant need to know more and more and yet still more, to know everything, that is the fast track to destruction. Knowledge is a good thing, Jeffrey, but the arrogance that so often comes with knowledge is ultimately our undoing. Don't be undone, Jeffrey. Do not be undone by pride in your knowledge.

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

the world is ruled by arrogant narcissists who have exchanged their souls for the promise of power, and in spite of all their talk about justice and the betterment of "the people," they care naught for any but themselves. In their high hubris, they are masters of destruction and press their many kinds of ruination into every crack and crevice, so that even the most remote sanctuary will in time receive the consequences of their insanity.

What did she do?" "Ruined everything. Out of pride.

make us humbler and give us a better chance of avoiding the arrogance that would destroy our world as they destroyed theirs. The Nihilim, those you call the Screamers

all-seeing and all-knowing. Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

The woman had her nose so far up in the air that she was in danger of drowning in a rainstorm.

smoothing the front of her sundress with a haughty

qui siedo sempre come un maestoso cazzo fra duoi coglioni. [...I always sit here like a majestic prick between two balls.]

conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority.

The occult has come out into the open. It is not hard to see that the powers of the occult are increasing—the boldness, the arrogance, the claims to superiority