Quotes About Arrogance

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

When someone says 'Id explain but its complicated.' I'm not offended they think so little of me, I'm offended they think so much of themselves.

A man in a business suit stepped around me, barking, "Excuse me," and glaring, as if I was slowing him down from getting his asshole-of-the-year award. He

No, por favor. No soporto la vanidad masculina cuando se desata espontáneamente.

Such arrogance. A right of youth, he supposes, a necessity. How else is it possible to face the terrifying void of your unformed self except by claiming absolute intelligence?

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.

A communications expert once made this distinction: "A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

Your client is that common animal, the Classic Narcissist. He doesn't care if he's making your life miserable, cutting into your profit margin, or getting you in trouble with the boss. He wants what he wants—and he wants it now, now, now.

A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

Everyone marveled--between courses at The Palm--at how out of touch Mittens was.

We're all adults here—we all know the score. We know what they do to people like me and my mom, to paradoxical hybrids of arrogant narcissism and vulnerable naïveté. We know what happens to unreconstructed surrealist militants. Tortured. Marked for assassination. Imagine what awaits me out there.

You need to think of your quest for wisdom as a hunger that will never be satiated. The mere thought that you've arrived will spawn pride and arrogance.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person