Quotes About Arrogance

Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you.

Bannon had announced himself as Trump's brain, a boast that vastly irritated the president.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obvious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes. There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what.

Insecurity was soothed by entitlement.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better. Kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing. Bannon is an arrogant prick who thinks he's smarter than he is. Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.

He had little to no experience in foreign policy, but he had no respect for the experts,

Sooner or later, Trump felt contempt for anyone who showed him too much devotion.

But not only didn't he read, he didn't listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how paltry or irrelevant—more than anyone else's. What's more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot (Trump) surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything - not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

On no account must any confidence be placed in a woman who's passed through the hands of the psychoanalysts. Pettiness, egoism, arrogant stupidity, complete lack of moral sense, a chronic inability to love: there you have an exhaustive portrait of the 'analysed' woman.

In revolutionary times, those who accord themselves, with an extraordinary arrogance, the facile credit for having inflamed anarchy in their contemporaries fail to recognize that what appears to be a sad triumph is in fact due to a spontaneous disposition, determined by the social situation as a whole. —AUGUSTE COMTE, Cours de philosophie positive, Leçon 48

A killer who operates in the dark of night and takes precautions to hide his identity has a low risk, while one who blatantly commits the murder without regard for being identified takes a greater risk. Serial killers' arrogance sometimes causes them to take greater risks.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

Azi ii lumea rea si femeile-s fudule.

whenever a culture has had a run of good luck and for a while seems indeed to have found a way of controlling the forces of nature. At that point it is logical for it to begin believing that it is a chosen people who need no longer fear any major setback. The

Tähtitieteilijäin ja matemaatikkojen pieni joukko eli omaa hajamielistä elämäänsä luentosalissaan halveksien syvästi kauppalaskennon ja maanmittauksen luennoille rientäviä nousukkaita.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!

Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

May your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

When you are entitled, you are the most insufferable person ever. If you are entitled and hardworking, which I am, you are still pretty insufferable, but at least you somewhat earned your entitled behavior.