Arrogance Quotes

545 Arrogance quotes by 441 unique authors

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by… — Barbra Streisand
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know.… — Henry David Thoreau
You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness… — Iyanla Vanzant
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. — Rufus Wainwright
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple… — James D. Watson
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. — Cornel West
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. — Frank Lloyd Wright
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.' — Evgeny Morozov
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification… — Moshe Safdie
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief… — Jane Austen
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men… — Arthur Schopenhauer
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small… — William Morris
If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those… — Unknown Author
And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so… — Susanna Clarke
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance… — Joseph Heller
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is… — Wendy Mass
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in… — Madeleine L'Engle
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and… — Emma Goldman
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) — Robert Ludlum
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy,… — Coco Chanel
Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. — Julian Barnes
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and… — Taylor Caldwell
It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns

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