Quotes About Arrogance

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

La defensa de los individuos y de las comunidades, de los árboles y de las semillas, contra el dogmatismo de las ideas; la defensa de los ríos y los bosques contra las arrogancias del mercado mundial.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Small things make base men proud.

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

How apt the poor are to be proud.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars

Failure has gone to his head.

Ideology is the arrogance of the finite subject who speaks as if he were the ultimate legislator, as if she had been appointed the final judge. The best prevention against the inveiglement of ideology is the practice of reading, in which the calculable well-formedness of various logics is constantly being fractured by a pervasive textuality.

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and sometimes, it is through the words of others. If we act the know-it-all, others may refrain from talking to us, and we may fail to get the message they could have given us.

No siempre los imbéciles salimos tan imbéciles como el imbécil que nos menosprecia.

Only idiots think they know everything I admit that I know nothing just so I am not an idiot

And then I think that while America was busy patting itself on the back and beating its chest,

In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp.

From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: "You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you— I know FUCK ALL!

When you are a senior boy in an English Public School, you perhaps reach the pinnacle of your self-importance.

religious leader." Such pride is very dangerous

The United States was a cesspool of egotistical, entitled children, but Texans took it to the next level. Incredibly arrogant, not only believing in their superiority but branding and marketing it to the world. Texas's love of God, guns, and giant pickup trucks was in effect a celebration of the primary sources of the problems in the world today.

Zis David Suchet, he zinks he knows me, but, of course, he does not. He is clever, but I am brilliant.