Arrogance Quotes

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

~ Kellie Elmore

You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture and religion is best. The idea that it is wrong to do so is deeply rooted in Western traditions of self-criticism and individualism. To charge others with the sin of ethnocentrism is really a way of saying, Our culture's approach to other cultures is superior to yours.

~ Timothy J. Keller

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

One age misunderstands another, and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The high road is littered with pot shots.

~ Debra Crown

You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

~ Criss Jami

All verbal spats have silent winners.

~ Talees Rizvi

It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.

~ Criss Jami

Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies.Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms,that was time when I lost my arrogance as human.

~ Toba Beta

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

~ Amit Kalantri

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

~ Criss Jami

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

~ Criss Jami

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

~ Criss Jami

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

~ Steve Alten

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

~ Sorin Cerin

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

~ Orrin Woodward

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

~ Pawan Mishra

If it’s not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I’m interested in but don’t yet know. It’s when they explain things to me I know and they don’t that the conversation goes awry.

~ Rebecca Solnit

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

~ James Rozoff

Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.

~ Faraaz Kazi

How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and satisfaction.

~ Barbara Hodgson

The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn’t build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.

~ Ben Witherington Iii

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.

~ Cyrano De Bergerac

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

~ Suzy Kassem

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.

~ John Rachel

A person with a good heart will always earn my utmost respect over an arrogant individual with all the worldly treasures in their hands.

~ Hafiz

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

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

~ Aaron B. Powell

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are administered by local commanders, who liaise with the national offices for information exchange, guidance and policy decisions. Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.

~ Jasper Fforde