Quotes About Arrogance

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.

There's a difference between being humble and being gullible. Those who cant distinguish live a sad life of arrogant ignorance and blind devotion.

An arrogant man is only showcasing his vulnerability. When life offers you lemon, add sugar and change it to lemonade.

Thunder Strikes on those who put themselves above everybody else.

But, as my sister says, 'there must always be poor people so that now that I'm rich I can shit on them.

But the words of Saint-Loup did not displease me since they recalled that pretentiousness is closely allied to stupidity and that simplicity has a subtle but agreeable flavour.

What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

The following are non-sequiturs: 'I am richer, therefore superior to you'; or 'I am a better speaker, therefore a better person, than you'.

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and ontrolled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Philip would not be afraid to die. But to live; to take over the mastery of more than half the world; to make swift decisions in the heat of action; to break the power of his arrogant nobles and then seem to make friends with them, while always distrusting them; to trust no one, depend on no one, to listen to advice and take none of it - yes, Philip was afraid to live.

and what to do with Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat, Five Star MacArthur. He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges - they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do. Mac tells God right off.

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob...

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool." Marguerite de Valois

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Let them eat cake.

cigarettes he smoked. As if he were the Duke of

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Outrage... can (and often does) look like arrogance or offensiveness or, certainly, impropriety. But it can be what fuels love of justice and mercy.