Quotes About Arrogance

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Whom do you call Bad?-Him who always wants to put others to shame.

Those who inflate themselves are cursed When pricked by a small pin to burst.

At present I still possess the same affability towards everybody, I am even full of consideration for the lowliest of people: in all this there is not a grain of arrogance or of secret contempt. He whom I despise soon guesses that he is despised by me: my mere existence is enough to rouse indignation in all those who have bad blood in their veins.

The physical theory suffers from the same affect as humanism; it attempts to live on its own fat and breathe the very air which it has already exhaled from its scientific lungs.

A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked.

Better could the stem of a rose support a marble bust than the mind of man bear the false infinity of his own deification.

This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women... I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it - but most of us understand that nationalism, at its heart, at its very deepest roots, is about a feeling of superiority: We are better than you. Our country is better than your country.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.