Quotes About Arrogance

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.

You have to be confident when you've got someone in front of you who wants to beat you and take the title from you. But I think people mistake my confidence for arrogance or cockiness.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.

Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

Some people love only those they can condescend to, those they can tenderly despise.

He turned and strode out of the square with the brisk arrogance of a man who had never imainged the possibility of his being in the wrong.

His look was predatory, gloating. All the power in this room was his, and he knew it.

You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to set the record straight. Finally he makes offensive assumptions and throws them in your face. A stranger in a bar could do the same…

The French are not impressed by anything as banal as niceness.

Michael Lee was the sun, moon and stars, maybe even the whole bloody solar system, as far as his family were concerned. No wonder he was so arrogant.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.

The heart of Babylon will always be arrogant self-sufficiency that has no need for God, no care for the people of God, and no commitment to the ways of God.