Arrogance Quotes - Page 6

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

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

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

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.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

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.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death - this infantile fixation of mine - was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry - with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.'

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

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

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

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.

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.

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