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Quotes About Arrogance

Being an intellectual, he thought that salespeople were below him.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Money and success make you arrogant and stupid. Now with some poverty and humility behind you, you can become a student again.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The five main reasons financially literate people may still not develop abundant cash flow are: 1) fear, 2) cynicism, 3) laziness, 4) bad habits, and 5) arrogance. Let's look at each of those in detail.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Intelligent people can be ignorant if they combine their smarts with arrogance. A truly intelligent person, on the other hand, welcomes new ideas.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Pride is cold company
~ L.M. Montgomery
El orgullo viene delante de la destrucción y un espíritu arrogante antes de la caída»
~ L.M. Montgomery
You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. But
~ L.M. Montgomery
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris
~ Larry Wall
His mother made a noise that in anyone of lower rank than a countess would have been given the unmannerly name of snort. As a cowed member of the ton had once commented, 'Nobody harrumphs quite like the Marchioness of Uppington.
~ Lauren Willig
People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
Fiction writing starts off by requiring the towering arrogance that enables one to sit down at the typewriter in the belief that someone somewhere will actually be eager to read the productions of our own private imaginations. But that arrogance must be buffered by the humility that leads us to learn our craft and strive to make our work comprehensible and inviting and accessible to the reader.
~ Lawrence Block
She looked like a statue of pride hanging its head.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The cousin was made of different stuff; his biting air of laziness and superiority made one want to kick him.
~ Lawrence Durrell
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Wisdom of the Ages: "Skull and Bones" A secret society of spoiled twits whose apparent purpose in life is littering the landscape with as many as possible.
~ Matthew Heines
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
~ Stephen Hawking
Hubris and science are incompatible.
~ Douglas Preston
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
~ Alan Kay
For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
~ Gordon Korman, One False Note
Conceited little mega-puppy.
~ Douglas Adams
Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".
~ Richard Nance
But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!
~ Stanislaw Law