Quotes About Arrogance

All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations into conflict with others, triggering their arrogance and lust for domination.This always involves contempt for Others.

La storia è spesso frutto di una leggerezza. Il frutto bastardo della stupidità umana, un parto dell'obnubilazione, dell'idiozia e della pazzia. In questi casi la storia è opera di gente che non sa quello che fa, anzi che neanche lo vuole sapere, che respinge quest'eventualità con rabbia e disgusto. La vediamo precipitarsi verso la propria rovina, irretirsi da sola, annodarsi il cappio, verificare con cura che reti e cappi siano solidi, resistenti, efficaci.

Mas o homem que nos atos e palavras se deixa dominar por vão orgulho sem recear a obra da justiça e não cultua propriamente os deuses está fadado a doloroso fim, vítima da arrogância criminosa que o induziu a desmedidos ganhos, a sacrilégios, à loucura máxima de profanar até as coisas santas.

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

the personification of philistine triumphalism

An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

There is, in fact, no worldview more reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a religious believer: the creator of the universe takes an interest in me, approves of me, loves me, and will reward me after death; my current beliefs, drawn from scripture, will remain the best statement of the truth until the end of the world; everyone who disagrees with me will spend eternity in hell….

Unless someone is suicidal or otherwise on the brink, deciding how much he should know about himself seems the quintessence of arrogance. What attitude could be more disrespectful of those we care about?

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

The strong are so stupid.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

Success hath made me wanton.