Quotes About Arrogance

That little Kennedy... he thought he was a god.

We once stood on the shoulders of Giants in humility. We now piggyback on Dwarfs in arrogance.

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.

Computers think that they are smarter than us. But they're not!

The last editorial meeting I had was with a 24 year-old Vassar grad who tried to explain to me (after I had been selling novels longer than she had been alive) how to write a book. I kept my cool and was nice to the human, but as Kris and I walked down the sidewalk after that meeting, I remember my only words were 'I'm done with this shit.

it was the smile that said, 'I know best. I know better than you.' The smile that said, 'I'm safe here and you're not.' The smile that said, 'I have a dick, so I win.

I knew something else, too: It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

Pride leads to down fall o f man.

God helps those who strut their stuff.

?Let your pretence of arrogance grow big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.

I am the best person in the universe.

Just because you consider yourself a genius does not mean you are smart

Advising gives a great illusion of superiority

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

Before I met the Jesuits, I'd never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.