--- title: "13 Arrogance Quotes By Samuel Johnson" description: "13 Arrogance quotes by Samuel Johnson. Plus more from Samuel Johnson and more Arrogance sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/410/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_all-imposture-weakens-confidence-and-chi_493076.png" --- > [All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-imposture-weakens-confidence-and-chills-benevolence/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/410/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_all-imposture-weakens-confidence-and-chi_493076.png) > [Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/such-is-the-uncertainty-of-human-affairs-that-security-and-despair/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e03/samuel-johnson-50_affair_such-is-the-uncertainty-of-human-affairs_535168.png) > [Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/vulgar-and-inactive-minds-confound-familiarity-with-knowledge-and/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_vulgar-and-inactive-minds-confound-famil_41513.png) > [To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-excite-opposition-and-inflame-malevolence-is-the-unhappy-privilege/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da5/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_to-excite-opposition-and-inflame-malevol_982551.png) > [No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/no-cause-more-frequently-produces-bashfulness-than-too-high-an/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_no-cause-more-frequently-produces-bashfu_838025.png) > [To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-proportion-the-eagerness-of-contest-to-its-importance-seems-too/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa3/samuel-johnson-50_age_to-proportion-the-eagerness-of-contest-t_1767803.jpg) > [Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/without-good-humour-learning-and-bravery-can-only-confer-that/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b95/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_without-good-humour-learning-and-bravery_95417.jpg) > [Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/critics-ought-never-to-be-consulted-but-while-errors-may-yet-be/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_critics-ought-never-to-be-consulted-but_3030254.jpg) > [Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/few-have-abilities-so-much-needed-by-the-rest-of-the-world-as-to-be/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/507/samuel-johnson-50_ability_few-have-abilities-so-much-needed-by-the_93495.png) > [All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-violation-of-established-practice-implies-in-its-own-nature-a/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/samuel-johnson-50_advantage_all-violation-of-established-practice-im_2276951.jpg) > [Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/among-the-innumerable-mortifications-which-waylay-human-arrogance-on/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_among-the-innumerable-mortifications-whi_849946.jpg) > [The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-mental-disease-of-the-present-generation-is-impatience-of-study-2/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e70/samuel-johnson-50_ancestor_the-mental-disease-of-the-present-genera_2630561.png) > [Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/men-who-have-flattered-themselves-into-this-opinion-of-their-own/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbc/samuel-johnson-50_ability_men-who-have-flattered-themselves-into-t_1340977.png) ## Other authors on Arrogance - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-toba-beta-105.jpg) Toba Beta 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogance/toba-beta/) - [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 18 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogance/mokokoma-mokhonoana/) - [Criss Jami 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogance/criss-jami/) - [Craig D. 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Hinckley 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogance/gordon-b-hinckley/) ## More by Samuel Johnson > [The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-size-of-a-man-s-understanding-might-always-be-justly-measured-by/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/pound-st-paul-s-church-into-atoms-and-consider-any-single-atom-it-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [You can never be wise unless you love reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/you-can-never-be-wise-unless-you-love-reading/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/if-our-aim-is-to-praise-we-should-forget-to-criticize-if-our-aim-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-theory-is-against-free-will-all-experience-is-for-it/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/had-i-learned-to-fiddle-i-should-have-done-nothing-else/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-as-foolish-to-make-experiments-upon-the-constancy-of-a-friend/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/resolve-not-to-be-poor-whatever-you-have-spend-less-poverty-is-a/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-basis-of-all-excellence-is-truth-he-that-professes-love-ought-to/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/words-are-daughters-of-earth-but-ideas-are-sons-of-heaven/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-composition-of-shakespeare-is-a-forest-in-which-oaks-extend-in/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-cherubim-were-never-intended-as-an-object-of-worship-because-they/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/nobody-has-the-right-to-put-another-under-such-a-difficulty-that-he/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/that-kind-of-life-is-most-happy-which-affords-us-most-opportunities/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-time-will-come-to-every-human-being-when-it-must-be-known-how/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogance/samuel-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "13 Arrogance Quotes By Samuel Johnson", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-imposture-weakens-confidence-and-chills-benevolence/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/410/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_all-imposture-weakens-confidence-and-chi_493076.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/410/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_all-imposture-weakens-confidence-and-chi_493076.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/410/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_all-imposture-weakens-confidence-and-chi_493076.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.” — Samuel Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; 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