Quotes About Arrogance

Trump's attacks against the judiciary reflect his view that only he should be able to decide what he can and cannot do.

There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding their use: I never, ever run for one. And nor should you.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

I've actually seen guys who I considered relatively stupid college coaches, then go to the NFL, and sanctimoniously think they understand that something the rest of us couldn't perceive. They're an idiot before, they're an idiot now, and they'll be an idiot afterwords. It's mind-numbing.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

What really hits Trump is when you prove to people that Trump isn't for you - that Trump is about Trump.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

When emotion rules, every fool thinks that he is holy.

I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.

I was a very cocky and unlikable young comic. But I came from the hood, and that's what I learned.

There's no better feeling than beating someone who's up on a high horse.

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

There's a certain attitude that you'll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris.

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.