Quotes About Arrogance

m?na, which in Sanskrit refers to an inflated mind that disregards others in favor of the self

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

Science is full of questions and often those questions do not have answers. Expertise on the other hand, is a conclusion, it's full of hubris incapable of acknowledging its own mistakes.

I believe in my race, colour. I never felt inferior to anyone. Maybe that's why the folks who made me feel that way, may think Vivian Richards is the most arrogant guy on earth, but no. I bat for human beings, equal rights.

Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors; the battle, instead, is between mankind - more precisely, Western mankind, with all its fire-breathing machinery and inexorable arrogance - and Africa, which has been proving itself untamable for centuries now.

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

I'm sure I was a cocky git.

There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.

We had a good education, but we didn't walk away feeling better than anybody else.

Los seres que abrigan una idea tan elevada de sí mismos nunca imaginan que puedan llegar a caer algún día. Cuando se produce la caída, estos seres se vacían, azorados, desprevenidos; su sustancia se evapora en el estupor del fracaso. Sin medias tintas, ni matices, y sin previo aviso. Así son.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!

A man's stomach is the reason he does not easily take himself for a God.

Die Forderung, geliebt zu werden, ist die größte der Anmaßungen.

And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.

In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you.