Quotes About Arrogance

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive.

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

Just as the Hare was overconfident in its speed, so the developers are overconfident in their ability to remain productive.

Programming is an act of creation. When we write code we are creating something out of nothing. We are boldly imposing order upon chaos. We are confidently commanding, in precise detail, the behaviors of a machine that could otherwise do incalculable damage. And so, programming is an act of supreme arrogance. Professionals

We are confidently commanding, in precise detail, the behaviors of a machine that could otherwise do incalculable damage. And so, programming is an act of supreme arrogance.

Finch refused to discuss these ideas and didn't brook criticism from his colleagues, much less from a mere photographer. What must it be like, Guilford wondered, to have such a baroque architecture crammed inside one's skull? Such a strange cathedral, so well buttressed, so well defended?

Self absorption is anti-seductive; it is a sign of insecurity.

Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.

There may be no more Sun Kings but there are still plenty of people who believe the sun revolves around them.

The bigger it bloats, the harder it falls.

Rather than flattering Louis XIV, Fouquet's elaborate party offended the king's vanity. Louis would not admit this to anyone, of course—instead, he found a convenient excuse to rid himself of a man who had inadvertently made him feel insecure. Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master's sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence.

But this means that he will be disliked on account of his superiority; and if a man is to be liked, he must really be inferior in point of intellect. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, 1788–1860

An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin.

YOU CAN ALWAYS SPOT A FOOL, for he is the man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election