Quotes About Arrogance

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Da pausa, da paz ou da trégua, do presente que olha com desdém para todo o passado, do agora que se acha superior a qualquer antes, é facílimo proclamar com soberba: "Eu ter-me-ia recusado, eu ter-me-ia revoltado", e sentir-se assim íntegro e puro.

Ser filántropo conllevaba una cierta arrogancia, no era para sentimentales.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Il traiterait presque avec mépris ses frères et ses copains qui emploient leurs loisirs à taper niaisement dans un ballon.

We're not number one, but we're number one in thinking we are number one.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

turn on a man, humiliate him, wound his pride, crush him under foot and think no more of the matter than if he had stepped on a worm. And

The Tudors hated to be wrong, and therefore never were.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Snooty high heels.

No she wouldn't," Miles said. "An ass is an ass

What a jerk. How dare he tell Stanley that he was wasting the gift? Famous for being famous. Yeah, right. He was the first human being ever brought back to life by scientific means. Famous for being famous. Jesus Christ.

There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what's good for it.

Ahlak?n bahts?zl??? : her ÅŸeyi daha iyi bilmesi ve bu yüzden de hiçbir ÅŸey öÄŸrenememesi.

The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement "the arrogance of belonging," and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life.

Because often what keeps you from creative living is your self-absorption (your self-doubt, your self-disgust, your self-judgment, your crushing sense of self-protection). The arrogance of belonging pulls you out of the darkest depths of self-hatred—not by saying "I am the greatest!" but merely by saying "I am here!" I

His wide brow, his Roman nose, those too-cold eyes, and the lips that in another life- another, better world- would still have been beautiful. This man was her husband. He was intense and intelligent, arrogant and vulnerable, dark and strange. The more she found out about him, the more she thought that perhaps she might fall in love with him, Raphael de Chartres, the Duke of Dyemore. What was more, he was hers . And in that she would not fail.