Quotes About Arrogance

Pride is a foolish thing, but it is a powerful force.

Damn little gadflies think they can buy the sun out the sky, don't they?" "This particular one could probably afford it," I said grimly. "And the moon too, if he wanted the matched set to use as bookends.

he wore his wealth with the comfortable indifference of someone born into it. New-made nobles, pretenders, and rich merchants simply don't carry themselves the same way.

When it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immortality, or, more succinctly, wickedness but because of his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to the domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent

Pride not only precedes a fall, but often hangs around a while longer to see what other damage it can do.

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

No digo que sea malo. Es joven, simplemente. Demasiado literario, demasiado orgulloso de su propia inteligencia.

Marse Compton hadn't aged but curdled like stagnant milk. His white arrogance had piled and thickened, casting its sour odor wherever he went.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Self-righteous people tend to be critical, dismissive, and impatient with others.

To every human being, sin is the ultimate undefeatable enemy. It captures and controls us all, and there is nothing we can do. It is either the height of arrogance or the depth of delusion to think that you are okay. None of us is okay apart from the invasion of grace that is the core purpose for the coming of Jesus.

Then de Montfort, resplendent in liturgical robes as well as his own arrogance, walked back to the altar where the mass continued.

Why you? - (...) I'm the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Como muchos hombres inteligentes, cree que los demás son idiotas.

I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.

The English are a great race,' he told me once. 'But they have a deep down belief that they are the best of all peoples.

In the scientific world, the syndrome known as 'great man's disease' happens when a famous researcher in one field develops strong opinions about another field that he or she does not understand, such as a chemist who decides that he is an expert in medicine or a physicist who decides that he is an expert in cognitive science. They have trouble accepting that they must go back to school before they can make pronouncements in a new field.

T-shirt with the slogan "Officer, I Swear to Drunk I'm Not God.

It's very hard to teach anything to a young man who knows everything.

Having appointed ourselves judge, jury and executioner, and having declared someone else "wrong," we feel superior to that person.

But sometimes the strong mistake their strength

Trying to show people how talented and bright you are is the best way to make an idiot of yourself, and we ended up doing that with flying colors.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

You always hated intellectuals because they made you feel like a Gentile poop!" "Intellectuals!" she cried. "Those dilettantes! Those self-aggrandizing fops!