Quotes About Arrogance

The arrogance of the intellectual. The delusion that we have more balls in the brain to juggle than most people.

It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

While pride and self-satisfaction might play well on TV, the Lord detests the proud face.3 It's the look of impenetrable ignorance. It doesn't ask questions. It has no reverse gear and won't admit to ever flip-flopping. When there is no soul-searching, is the soul still there?

the Principle of Mediocrity opposes the pre-Enlightenment arrogance of believing ourselves significant in the world; the Spaceship Earth metaphor opposes the Enlightenment arrogance of aspiring to control the world.

Arrogance wasn't the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.

it seems to me that this kind of hero—privileged, self-assured, the perpetual heir to the kingdom, and not averse to violence—has been and continues to be lauded throughout history.

Celebrity is the mother of pretension.

Knowing unconsciously is best; presuming to know what you don't know is sick."34

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

But, he added, in a rare moment of self-revelation, "such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle.

When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then giver views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

Godzilla lovers to this day still wonder precisely what attracts them. Part of the appeal is the surprising sophistication in what seems at first glance to be simple-minded Saturday matinee fare. In the wreckage left in the wake of this awesome beast lies the tattered remains of human hubris, a moral lesson left smoldering in the ruins. As series producer Tomoyuki Tanaka put it, "As long as the arrogance of human beings exists, Godzilla will survive.

I don't need to know. So neither do you." LB snorted. "Funny how the people who say that are never the ones with parachutes on.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

Racism is stupid. It's an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.