Quotes About Arrogance

It has been said that people of the modern world suffer a great sadness, a "species loneliness"—estrangement from the rest of Creation. We have built this isolation with our fear, with our arrogance, and with our homes brightly lit against the night.

But just because we don't think of them as humans doesn't mean they aren't beings. Isn't it even more disrespectful to assume that we're the only species that counts as 'persons'?" The arrogance of English is that the only way to be animate, to be worthy of respect and moral concern, is to be a human.

As an enthusiastic young PhD, colonized by the arrogance of science, I had been fooling myself that I was the only teacher. The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness. Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart. My job was just to lead them into the presence and ready them to hear. On that smoky afternoon, the mountains taught the students and the students taught the teacher.

He found that the arrogance of power could be used to unleash unlimited growth--an unrestrained, cancerous sort of creation that would lead to destruction.

Det är inte många, fortsatte han högmodigt, som förstår hur makt ska brukas. Och inte många som vågar bruka den när de blir erbjudna den.

No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used? Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation. Poor lambs. That's not how I'd describe them. I was thinking of animal sacrifice. Ah. That's closer.

Damned technocrats. Nothing but horse doctors with a more expensive set of toys.

Did you imagine you controlled it? Omniscient and omnipotent? Nobody appointed you God, Vorkosigan." Ghostly faint, one corner of his mouth turned up. "I'm sure it was an oversight." He leaned back and closed his eyes.

Adieu, Lord Dain," she answered without turning her head. "Have a pleasant evening with your cows." Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he'd felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.

He carried himself with that impatient arrogance toward others that is often possessed by men who have succeeded by their own efforts, and too easily.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

Samoljublje kvari i najve?e genije.

El orgullo nunca está lejos de la caída.

Things started going wrong, as far as Zhaanat was concerned, when places everywhere were named for people—political figures, priests, explorers—and not for the real things that happened in these places—the dreaming, the eating, the death, the appearance of animals. This confusion of the chimookomaanag between the timelessness of the earth and the short span here of mortals was typical of their arrogance.

About his nose, Pierpont could be more sensitive than he was about his trusts.

By remaining silent in the face of criticism, he thought he would seem confident and secure in his integrity—in fact, he seemed guilty and arrogantly evasive.

Últimamente la gente esta agarrando la detestable costumbre de ser menor que yo.

The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.

I say to myself: Who are you to measure infinite power?

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

Men had been puffed up with pride by notions not a tithe as excellent and practicable.

Do you dare imply that this useless sword is worthy of me?- Sesshomaru

a fully flowered narcissist.