Quotes About Arrogance

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

ultracrepidarianism, which means "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

When we worry we say to God, 'I can't trust You. You're not doing Your job, so I'm going to step in and take over.' We can't just call that arrogance and foolishness—it's sin.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

We'll talk to them in Spanish and if they don't understand us, we'll say it louder and slower, and shake our heads because how stupid can you be not to be able to speak such a simple language.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

The biggest mistake people make is that they think they're special. They're not.

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

It was really a meditation on what he'd learned watching these people. What he'd learned about them and the nature of humanity and what he'd learned about himself. It was a remarkable study of arrogance and humility and, above all, forgiveness.

It became okay to stop the swaggering, to cease the bullying that was excused as an appropriate way to treat the populace.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Quem diz que sabe exatamente como outra pessoa se sente é um idiota.

Faith in Providence is faith in one's own worth, … [H]ence also false humility, religious arrogance, which, it is true, does not rely on itself, but only because it commits the care of itself to the blessed God. God … wills that I shall be blest; but that is my will also: … God's love for me [is] nothing else than my own self-love deified.

The vain arrogance of the literati and the Bohemian artists dismisses the activities of the businessmen as unintellectual money-making. The truth is that the entrepreneurs and promoters display more intellectual faculties and intuition than the average writer and painter. The inferiority of many self-styled intellectuals manifests itself precisely in the fact that they fail to recognize what capacity and reasoning power are required to develop and to operate successfully a business enterprise.

Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.

We humans, especially physicians, are notorious for interfering with nature, thinking we know better. Sometimes we do—all too often we don't.

il filosofo è tanto più bestia quanto più vuol esser dio

The common people?—pah. What are they to us? You and I, mein Freund, we are lords of the earth, the great ones, the major men, the makers of supreme fictions.

Tommy sniffed the spring breeze like a supercilious stag.

Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway. 5.

humility comes before honor and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Presumption said, Every fat must stand upon his own bottom.

Those who lack humility are dogmatic and egotistical. That masks a deep sense of insecurity.