Arrogance Quotes - Page 11

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

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

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

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

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

The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. "Us against the rest of the world" is the formula that drives the West.

The taint of arrogance will I not know.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

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

Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

What incredible arrogance to believe that we limited human beings can destroy that which we cannot even begin to understand - much less create on our own - and that is earth and all of its glories.

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

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

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

There's something wrong with the system when you've got someone who can provide so much to a company and can be enthusiastic, but isn't management material or whatever. So a lot of that just gets defined as the person who speaks with the loudest voice and gets up there with the most arrogance and overly confident, chest-beating approach. Those are the ones that are going to get the golden ring.

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

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

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

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

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.

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a political culture of hyper-punitiveness has become normalized. Revealing itself in a blatant display of unbridled arrogance and power, it is unchecked by any sense of either conscience or morality.

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

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