Quotes About Arrogance

Pride is hateful before God and man.

I am holier than thou.

It's pride that puts this country down;Man, take thine old cloak about thee.

Profess not the knowledge… that thou hast not.A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last.

He is a king over all the children of pride.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.

Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.

The Claudii had produced Consuls in every generation since the foundation of the Republic and over the centuries had built up a well-deserved reputation for high-handedness and violence. In one typical incident, a Claudius was leading a Roman fleet into battle. The sacred chickens refused to give a favorable omen by feeding on some corn that was put out for them. So Claudius had them flung into the sea, with the words: "If they won't eat, then let them drink.

This was Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica ("big nose"). A senior politician who had held all the great offices of state and was now pontifex maximus, or high priest, he had a high opinion of himself: at a noisy public meeting, he once said, "Be quiet, please, citizens. I know more about the public interest than you do.

He insulted the more distinguished of the captives who came before him for judgment

you choose to stand too close to the sun you can't complain when you become nothing more than a silhouette.

When Derek Abbott was arrested in London, he didn't care. I still remember the day he came in, sitting there with this look on his face like he was the lord of the manor who'd accidentally wandered into the servants' quarters. The police weren't going to get anywhere near him, not in a hundred years!

They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. (MLK, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1964) (Note: 50 years ago)

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

I did something that I told people around me never to do, which was, pay a psychiatrist. Why pay a psychiatrist when you can just come to me? I can help you with something going on in your life; even if I know nothing about you, I can possibly help you. That's just me being cocky like I am.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

I have seen pretty horrible blokes thinking they can do pretty much what they like over the years, not just in showbusiness but in ordinary jobs and in pubs and stuff.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

If you think you're higher than UFC, if you think you're better than all the other fighters, then maybe you should get pulled.