Arrogance Quotes - Page 8

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

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

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

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

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. The keeping of bees, for instance.

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.

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

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.

Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

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

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

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.

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.

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

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.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.