Quotes About Arrogance

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Wit is educated insolence.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people, " he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.