Arrogance Quotes - Page 4

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

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

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.

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

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

As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.

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

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

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

I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.

The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

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

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

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

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

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

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

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

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

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

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.