Arrogance Quotes
545 quotes by 441 authors
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Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our…
— Rajneesh
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Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Arrogance always destroys opportunity
— T.D. Jakes
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every…
— John Ruskin
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I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful;…
— Martin Luther
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Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and…
— Emma Goldman
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The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
— Francois Mauriac
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If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially…
— Israel Shenker
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I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.
— Steve Madden
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Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.
— Hermann Minkowski
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When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.
— Joely Richardson
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Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or…
— Laura Lippman
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A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.
— Criss Jami
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Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,…
— Criss Jami
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Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
— Brian Molko
Who Wrote These Arrogance Quotes
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