Quotes About Arrogance

You may come to believe that the world cannot survive without your interference, while the truth is that the world cannot survive your arrogant interference.

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

That's unnatural.' 'Some would call it a miracle. Careful of the word unnatural. It reeks of arrogance. You are assuming you know the boundaries of nature. You don't. There is more to life than your eyes can see. More than you can ever imagine. Nature comes from the mind of God. It is infinite. The finite human mind can never fathom it in totality.

when a man praises himself, it is intellectual suicide.

Madoff was not inhumanly monstrous. He was monstrously human. He was greedy for money and praise, arrogantly sure of his own capacity to pull it off, smugly dismissive of skeptics—just like anyone who mortgaged the house to invest in tech stocks, or tapped the off-limits college fund to gamble on a new business, or put all the retirement savings into a hedge fund they didn't understand, or cheated a little on the tax return or the expense account or the spouse.

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

You don't know nothing, that's what I figured out. You don't know nothing, but you act like god anyway.

Bodley's librarian Thomas Hearne responded gallantly that Wood himself was 'always looked upon in Oxford as a most egregious, illiterate, dull blockhead, a conceited impudent coxcomb'. The

And I'll wager you thought him the handsomest thing that ever you saw in your life." "I did. And if you stuck him, and stuffed him, and hung him on the wall, I'd be very glad to admire him. But in life he's an arrogant pig, and I didn't care for him at all. 'Mind who you look at, wench.' Foo!

The arrogance of ignorance.

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

Suffering, in fact, can be helpful in many ways. It spurs your motivation and as many teachings point out, without suffering there would be no determination to be free from samsara. Sadness is an effective antidote to arrogance.

Demek ki yaÅŸam bir tür ÅŸakayd?: kibrinden, girdiÄŸi bir iddia yüzünden her ÅŸeyi yitirmiÅŸti.

Perché con tutta la tua intelligenza tu sei l'uomo più stupido che io abbia mai incontrato. [...]

In lei, Laide, viveva meravigliosamente la città, dura, decisa, presuntuosa, sfacciata, orgogliosa, insolente. Nella degradazione degli animi e delle cose, fra suoni e luci equivoci, al'ombra tetra dei condominii, fra le muraglie di cemento e di gesso, nella frenetica desolazione, una specie di fiore.

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can't learn because they're too busy telling everyone what they know.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.