Quotes About Arrogance

We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.

They've grown comfortable with their money,' I said. 'They genuinely believe they're entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little.

Don't you sometimes feel a power in you? An extreme state of good health. An arrogant healthiness. That's it. You are feeling so good you begin thinking you're a little superior to most people. An optimism about yourself that you generate at the expense of others. Don't you sometimes feel this?

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS, EXACTLY, BUT THE PEOPLE with the healthiest self-esteem are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people. It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.

Of his new book, Don says: "It might be the greatest book ever written. I don't think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I'm going to use the money to go to space.

Victor Frankl whispered in my ear all the same. He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

The best thing I know about me, is that I'm rich

Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich." (Trump, Donald, R-N.Y., billionaire real estate mogul; reality show hot air buffoon; ABC News with Ashleigh Banfield; 3/17/2011.)

Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich." (Trump, Donald, R-N.Y.; ABC News with Ashleigh Banfield; 3/17/2011.)

Helmut thought himself above common morality. Or perhaps he thought he'd managed to create his own, different from ours, better.

hubris on Henry's, too much Greek prose composition—whatever

The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the arrogance of power, the tendency of great nations to equate power with virtue and major responsibilities with a universal mission.

Pride makes us rest content with ourselves—think we are good enough as we are—keep us from taking advice—refuse the gospel of Christ—turn every one to his own way. But pride never reigns anywhere so powerfully as in the heart of a young man.

La ignorancia y la inexperiencia son el pedestal del orgullo; quítale el pedestal, y el orgullo pronto caerá.

Already enough is known to show that the whole concept of the superiority of Western Christian civilization is one based on an arrogant ignorance of the rest of the world.

As pessoas estão tão acostumadas a ouvir mentiras, que sinceridade demais choca e faz com que você pareça arrogante.

Sister Katherine smiled. 'Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.

He thought that just because he couldn't conceive of a threat to his ship it was safe.

Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

as Citus said: alexender is right not to bear free borne men at his table who can only tell him the truth.vIt is fitting for him to pass his life among brbarians and slaves, who well be proud to pay their adoration to his persian girdle and splendid robe.

as Citus said:alexender is right not to bear freeborn men at his table who can only tell him the truth. He is right. It is fitting for him to pass his life among barbarians and slaves, who will be proud to pay their adoration to his Persian girdle and his splendid robe

It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance, it was done by dogma, it was done by ignorance.