Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found,… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“He carried himself like a man who liked to fuck and knew he did it well. That subtle sexual arrogance.” — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. — Paul Hauck Copy Share Image
Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“...you cannot be a leader if no one is willing to follow and work alongside you. An arrogant person does not ask… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
“Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information.… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
You can bring peace through love and only love. For love you have to put aside your ego, hate, arrogance and differences.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
“You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't become consumed in figuring who is right.. all that matters is figuring what is right. Anything else is menial. — Kenneth W Griffin Copy Share Image
Truly strong people are not arrogant. Cowardice on the other hand causes arrogance. Cowards hide behind their own power and authority. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.” — Michael Kazin Copy Share Image
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence. — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always felt that Donald Trump was a Dickensian character because he is so ridiculous. With his hair and his arrogance, he… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
“You are arrogant," says the cat, "and you are in love. Either one of these things alone might be overcome, but together,… — Elora Bishop Copy Share Image
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
