Quotes About Arrogance

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

I'm sorry to say it, but we have to be more arrogant and more streetwise because we are coming up against some great teams who have that streetwise mentality. They bring their play into it: you do what you have to do to win a game. Simple as that. Be streetwise and clever.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

I was a really pretentious teenager.

That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

The one consistent thing about psychopaths was their ego. They never imagined getting caught because they believed they were smarter than everyone.

His ego was just too big, almost as if he were genetically predisposed to be an ass.

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

The only sin is pride.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God, holds other people in contempt.

You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity

Mingling grandiosity and short-sightedness in dangerous measure.

If Jonny Rokeby turned up here, yes, the press would be fighting tooth and nail to get a shot of him. For fuck's sake. You're not that famous. Get the fuck over yourself.

There's pride and then there's stupidity.

he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to 'ninety k' and 'a quarter of a mill', and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...

withdrawn smugness of unexplained wealth.