Quotes About Arrogance

Americans, who intellectually knew the rest of the world existed but didn't really believe it.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals Himself.

a Hungarian girl with a completely unjustified belief in her own genius.

Rudi listed his objections to communism: "The exaggerations in the press, the primitive tone of some articles, the boring speeches filled with jargon, the arrogant dismissal of opposing views, the ham-fisted behaviour towards intellectuals, whom you isolate instead of winning over, insulting opponents instead of disarming them with logic and recruiting them.

Like all truly selfish people, Kliemann believed the minutiae of his life must be fascinating to all.

The secular bullies believe they have an exclusive patent on scientific knowledge.

the Supreme Court of the United States is supposed to be free of politics. That's why these legalistic doofuses in silly-looking robes get a lifetime appointment and a free supply of arrogance to go with it. They're not supposed to be susceptible to bullying—upholding the Constitution is supposed to be a bully-free job.

less white" means to be "less arrogant, less certain, less defensive, less ignorant, and more humble"—and claiming that this discriminatory content was designed to enhance "inclusion.

Polls show that while students who just finished high school believe in an active God at a rate of 77 percent, once students reach the level of postgraduate education, that rate drops to 65 percent.70 This may be due to youthful arrogance; more likely, it is due, at least in large part, to the anti-God bias of the universities.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

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

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals

To be proud of Knowledge, is to be blind with Light.

As pride increases, fortune declines

The proud hate pride – in others.

When you discard arrogance' cool gritty, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block: life is fun.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.