Quotes about Arrogance

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. Votes: 5

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. Votes: 5

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. Votes: 5

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. Votes: 4

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. Votes: 4

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 as well as pretty. Votes: 4

Arrogance always destroys opportunity Votes: 3

Arrogance follows distribution strength. Votes: 3

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles. Votes: 3

Arrogance cometh before reality. Votes: 3

Arrogance can be deadly. Votes: 3

Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom. Votes: 3

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly. Votes: 3

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity. Votes: 3

Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself. Votes: 3

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth. Votes: 3

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom. Votes: 3

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance. Votes: 3

Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb. Votes: 3

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. Votes: 3

Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord. Votes: 3

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted. Votes: 3

Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have. Votes: 3

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. Votes: 3

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more. Votes: 3

Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside. Votes: 3

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency. Votes: 3

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little. Votes: 3

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Votes: 3

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it. Votes: 3

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. Votes: 3

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize. Votes: 3

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. Votes: 3

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me... Votes: 3

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. Votes: 3

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell.. Votes: 3

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. Votes: 3

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere Votes: 3

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". Votes: 3

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine. Votes: 3

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. Votes: 3

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys. Votes: 3

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for. Votes: 3

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. Votes: 3

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. Votes: 3

Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that. Votes: 3

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap. Votes: 3

Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him - Votes: 3

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God. Votes: 3

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Votes: 3

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. Votes: 3

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Votes: 3

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others. Votes: 3

Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses. Votes: 3

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything. Votes: 3

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves. Votes: 3

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt. Votes: 3

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, tormented face. Votes: 3

I say this as a big sister in the faith hoping someone might learn an easier way. Arrogance does not bode well. It attracts the rod of God. Votes: 3

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned. Votes: 3

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it. Votes: 3

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 why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance. Votes: 3

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others. Votes: 3

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. Votes: 3

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Votes: 3

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. Votes: 3

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 own way if I am to heal. Votes: 3

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. Votes: 3

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed. Votes: 3

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 disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. Votes: 3

The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn. Votes: 3

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 I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite. Votes: 3

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. Votes: 3

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. Votes: 3

Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. Votes: 3

When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation. Votes: 3

When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation. Votes: 3

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. Votes: 3

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. Votes: 3

Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities. Votes: 3

You don't know what you're talking about." "“ Coyote "Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all." "“ Choo Co La Tah Votes: 3

My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices. Votes: 3

False modesty can be worse than arrogance. Votes: 1

The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Votes: 1

He has lulled himself into a false sense of competence Votes: 1

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Votes: 1

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror Votes: 1

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. Votes: 1

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief. Votes: 1

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you Votes: 1

In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility Votes: 1

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility Votes: 1

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon Votes: 1

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. Votes: 1

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. Votes: 1

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. Votes: 1

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 times. Votes: 1

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance Votes: 1

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities Votes: 1

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. Votes: 1

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 God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. Votes: 1

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages Votes: 1

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. Votes: 1

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science. Votes: 1

Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended. Votes: 1

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Votes: 1

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. Votes: 1

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work. Votes: 1

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about. Votes: 1

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 shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Votes: 1

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. Votes: 1

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment. Votes: 1

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever Votes: 0

It's nice to see arrogance humbled. Votes: 0

It's only arrogance if you're wrong. Votes: 0

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth. Votes: 0

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence. Votes: 0

It's not arrogance, it's just destiny. Votes: 0

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. Votes: 0

Dilute your arrogance with a smile. Votes: 0

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance. Votes: 0

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty. Votes: 0

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance. Votes: 0

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance. Votes: 0

Science is a form of arrogance control. Votes: 0

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame. Votes: 0

Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance. Votes: 0

The taint of arrogance will I not know... Votes: 0

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed. Votes: 0

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior? Votes: 0

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot. Votes: 0

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations. Votes: 0

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility. Votes: 0

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance. Votes: 0

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Votes: 0

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Votes: 0

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music. Votes: 0

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion. Votes: 0

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. Votes: 0

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance Votes: 0

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. Votes: 0

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization. Votes: 0

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. Votes: 0

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance! Votes: 0

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance. Votes: 0

Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful. Votes: 0

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success. Votes: 0

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility. Votes: 0

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience. Votes: 0

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. Votes: 0

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. Votes: 0

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Votes: 0

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking. Votes: 0

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance. Votes: 0

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance. Votes: 0

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. Votes: 0

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description. Votes: 0

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance. Votes: 0

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. Votes: 0

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all. Votes: 0

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption. Votes: 0

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. Votes: 0

Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave. Votes: 0

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. Votes: 0

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth. Votes: 0

Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews. Votes: 0

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission. Votes: 0

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth. Votes: 0

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. Votes: 0

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. Votes: 0

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ... Votes: 0

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance. Votes: 0

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. Votes: 0

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill. Votes: 0

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. Votes: 0

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities. Votes: 0

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter. Votes: 0

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence. Votes: 0

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. Votes: 0

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. Votes: 0

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance. Votes: 0

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts. Votes: 0

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past Votes: 0

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Votes: 0

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective. Votes: 0

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot. Votes: 0

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover. Votes: 0

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes. Votes: 0

The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance. Votes: 0

Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance. Votes: 0

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.. Votes: 0

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross. Votes: 0

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off Votes: 0

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. Votes: 0

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist. Votes: 0

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers. Votes: 0

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. Votes: 0

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed. Votes: 0

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy. Votes: 0

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us. Votes: 0

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility. Votes: 0

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life Votes: 0

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion Votes: 0

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human". Votes: 0

Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing. Votes: 0

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. Votes: 0

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity. Votes: 0

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. Votes: 0

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses. Votes: 0

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. Votes: 0

A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved. Votes: 0

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. Votes: 0

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence? Votes: 0

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. Votes: 0

It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism Votes: 0

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. Votes: 0

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) Votes: 0

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else. Votes: 0

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. Votes: 0

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly. Votes: 0

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance. Votes: 0

I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect. Votes: 0

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause. Votes: 0

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. Votes: 0

That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that. Votes: 0

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices. Votes: 0

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for. Votes: 0

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance. Votes: 0

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance. Votes: 0

The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead. Votes: 0

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. Votes: 0

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with. Votes: 0

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. Votes: 0

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions. Votes: 0

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt Votes: 0

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. Votes: 0

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. Votes: 0

It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself. Votes: 0

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power. Votes: 0

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society. Votes: 0

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. Votes: 0

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. Votes: 0

Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald". Votes: 0

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself. Votes: 0

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed. Votes: 0

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. Votes: 0

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect. Votes: 0

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented. Votes: 0

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson Votes: 0

Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture. Votes: 0

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. Votes: 0

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. Votes: 0

The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about. Votes: 0

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance. Votes: 0

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes. Votes: 0

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. Votes: 0

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony. Votes: 0

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance. Votes: 0

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance. Votes: 0

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. Votes: 0

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. Votes: 0

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. Votes: 0

In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.' Votes: 0

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. Votes: 0

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. Votes: 0

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. Votes: 0

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control. Votes: 0

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence. Votes: 0

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance. Votes: 0

We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance. Votes: 0

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence. Votes: 0

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so. Votes: 0

If you want to be treated like a queen then start acting like one. No arrogance or games. Be humble, graceful, kind & loving. Votes: 0

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself. Votes: 0

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others. Votes: 0

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged. Votes: 0

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies. Votes: 0

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C. Votes: 0

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all. Votes: 0

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith) Votes: 0

Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe"”ever expanding. Votes: 0

Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy. Votes: 0

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. Votes: 0

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants. Votes: 0

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony. Votes: 0

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. Votes: 0

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance. Votes: 0

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us. Votes: 0

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. Votes: 0

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me. Votes: 0

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. Votes: 0

Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability. Votes: 0

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees. Votes: 0

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat. Votes: 0

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake. Votes: 0

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you. Votes: 0

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance. Votes: 0

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.' Votes: 0

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth. Votes: 0

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy. Votes: 0

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. Votes: 0

Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance. Votes: 0

Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies. Votes: 0

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person. Votes: 0

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance. Votes: 0

Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer. Votes: 0

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 appear. Votes: 0

Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet. Votes: 0

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded. Votes: 0

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us. Votes: 0

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance. Votes: 0

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine. Votes: 0

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy. Votes: 0

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest. Votes: 0

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed. Votes: 0

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. Votes: 0

No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you. Votes: 0

Martha Stewart published her recipe for disaster -- mix one part arrogance with two parts incompetence, simmer in the juices and then serve hot in the can. Votes: 0

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.. Votes: 0

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war) Votes: 0

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition. Votes: 0

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history. Votes: 0

Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry. Votes: 0

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge. Votes: 0

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. Votes: 0

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals. Votes: 0

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work. Votes: 0

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. Votes: 0

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation? Votes: 0

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful. Votes: 0

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. Votes: 0

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women. Votes: 0

It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science. Votes: 0

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature. Votes: 0

With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English? Votes: 0

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over. Votes: 0

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. Votes: 0

Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong. Votes: 0

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 pride in your openness. Votes: 0

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant. Votes: 0

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled. Votes: 0

Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost. Votes: 0

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial. Votes: 0

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. Votes: 0

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 humility breeds arrogance and tyranny. Votes: 0

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it. Votes: 0

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism! Votes: 0

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us. Votes: 0

I want people to hear the honesty in my singing, and that I'm not hiding behind anything. It's raw. It's not for any arrogance or ego. It's just pure feelings. Votes: 0

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. Votes: 0

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her. Votes: 0

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance. Votes: 0

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. Votes: 0

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear. Votes: 0

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that. Votes: 0

The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance. Votes: 0

I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever. Votes: 0

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 dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. Votes: 0

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality. Votes: 0

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked. Votes: 0

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human. Votes: 0

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. Votes: 0

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America. Votes: 0

The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem. Votes: 0

It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines. Votes: 0

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance. Votes: 0

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. Votes: 0

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Votes: 0

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel. Votes: 0

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable. Votes: 0

His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding. Votes: 0

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages. Votes: 0

Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance. Votes: 0

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him. Votes: 0

My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children. Votes: 0

An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists. Votes: 0

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us. Votes: 0

My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous. Votes: 0

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance. Votes: 0

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved. Votes: 0

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom... Votes: 0

At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins. Votes: 0

The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion is healthy, a confusion-free mind, a trauma-free memory and a sorrow-free soul. Votes: 0

Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear. Votes: 0

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact. Votes: 0

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart. Votes: 0

It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes. Votes: 0

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders. Votes: 0

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance. Votes: 0

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs. Votes: 0

The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself. Votes: 0

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it. Votes: 0

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was. Votes: 0

They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king.""That must have hurt," Oates said. Umber pinched the bridge of his nose."Hubris means arrogance, you great buffoon. Votes: 0

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit. Votes: 0

Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally. Votes: 0