Quotes about arrogance

He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that I'd burst into laughter halfway.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable the latter is not.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Insecurity was never humility just as arrogance was never success.

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.

Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?Have you declared yourself enlightened?Damn your weak philosophies a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.

One age misunderstands another and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger it is our arrogance and egotism

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

Get rid of pride it'll only ride you to the wrong side of life. May God's words guide your faith to abide in true humility. Kick off pride embrace humility!

[Soetsu Yanagi's] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am right in saying Yanagi's belief was that the good artist of craftsman has no personal pride because in his soul he knows that any prowess he shows is evidence of that Other Power. Therefore what Yanagi says is 'Take heed of the humble be what you are by birthright there is no room for arrogance'.

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.

What causes all this?""Pride. What else?

Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snake approached God's image-bearer, directing her as though he had dominion over her (when it was, in fact, the other way around). He treated her as an animal, and she didn't even see it. At the same time, the old dragon appealed to her to transcend the limits of her dignity. If she would reach for the fo

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.

All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

His core business still is self-promotion.

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

Some things sound better if they don't come from you.

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

Arrogance doesn't have variety in shades.. Humility has umpteen.

Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.

Folly is a child of power.

Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.

Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are administered by local commanders, who liaise with the national offices for information exchange, guidance and policy decisions. Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sh

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguish

I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day.

Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-respect. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. If our self-worth is low, it affects everything we do. The point of life is to contribute to others, but without a certain self-regard, it is sometimes difficult to make breakfast.

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the r

But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that one’s arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realization that his beliefs have calcified, that he can no longer assess a situation accurately at first glance, that the world has changed around him and left him behind. Guarded from this knowledge, he remains content.

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.