Arrogance Quotes
545 quotes by 441 authors
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To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
— Richard Leakey
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Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an…
— Emma Goldman
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The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of…
— Sydney J. Harris
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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is…
— Byron Katie
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This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.
— Gary Hamel
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..
— Eric Shinseki
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This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
— George W. Bush
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Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness,…
— Francis Crick
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Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.
— Radhanath Swami
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
— Randy Pausch
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There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
— Pope Francis
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take…
— Wole Soyinka
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I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved…
— Shahid Kapoor
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There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.
— Tony McCoy
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One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue…
— John Wells
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I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
— James Corden
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The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all…
— Keyshawn Johnson
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There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my…
— Anne Wilson Schaef
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