Quotes About Arrogance

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

Overconfident humans who don't listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.)

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?

lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.

No matter how insignificant the little office may be, they take a foot though they do not have an inch,73 and always want to be God themselves when they ought to be God's maid.

Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.

Note: God came into the world in order to cast down the demons from divine honors. And now man arrogates the same titles to himself, namely, to boast of good and righteousness, which belong to God alone. But this, too, He will at last, at His Second Coming, cast down.]

Cei care cred ca inteligenta are vreo noblete, cu siguranta ca n-au destula pentru a-si da seama ca nu e decat un blestem.

Compró suntuosos trajes, que suscitarán la risa de las próximas generaciones, y que, por el momento, difundían su superioridad sobre el vulgo que no dispone de medios para exhibir tan pésimo gusto con tan natural ostentación.

Many would have resented the arrogance and disdain, the double standards and the lifestyle of their rich neighbours; lack of zoning in Roman cities may have had its equitable side, but it also meant that the poor constantly had their noses rubbed in the privilege of others. What

It turned out to be a lesson for the patricians – learned the hard way – that the gods communicated with plebeians too.

It's the odious, insufferable people who usually get to the top.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It's my world, you all just live in it.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Vanity, thy name is

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

They Thought Themselves only a step lower than the gods, proud in their power over heaven and earth. They grew strong in their knowledge but weak in their wisdom, craving more and still more power, crushing the defenseless. _ Morrighan Book of Holy Text,Vol. IV

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

Hoshan I experienced profound spiritual awareness," he said slowly. "It began with a devastating recognition of my failures and shortcomings. Only when all my pride and arrogance had been stripped away did I experience divine compassion so infinite that it could forgive all my weaknesses and fill me with light.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!