Arrogance Quotes

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

~ Greg Rucka

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

~ Criss Jami

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

~ Criss Jami

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

~ Suzy Kassem

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

~ Booth Tarkington

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

~ Criss Jami

What causes all this?Pride. What else?

~ W.p. Kinsella

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

~ Richard Rohr

Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.

~ Cixin Liu

Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snake approached God's image-bearer, directing her as though he had dominion over her (when it was, in fact, the other way around). He treated her as an animal, and she didn't even see it. At the same time, the old dragon appealed to her to transcend the limits of her dignity. If she would reach for the forbidden, she would be like God, knowing good and evil. He suggested that she was more than a human; she was a goddess.

~ Russell D. Moore

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

~ Criss Jami

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

~ Stephen Mitchell

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Some things sound better if they don't come from you.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

~ Alan Cohen

Arrogance doesn't have variety in shades.. Humility has umpteen.

~ Talees Rizvi

Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, Empty drums make the loudest noise. Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.

~ Arun Gandhi

By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

~ Graham Speechley

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

~ Walter Isaacson

One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

~ A.j. Jacobs

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance. Lord Acton

~ Harold Holzer

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

~ Charles Dickens

His core business still is self-promotion.

~ Joe Nocera

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

~ Harold Holzer

Folly is a child of power.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

~ Stephen L. Carter

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts. The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

~ John Taliaferro

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

~ Dan Jones

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Richard Nixon's conversation was loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.

~ Rick Perlstein

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

~ Stella Payton

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

~ Dean Koontz

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

~ Criss Jami

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

~ Jane Austen

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.

~ Brian Spellman

[Soetsu Yanagi's] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am right in saying Yanagi's belief was that the good artist of craftsman has no personal pride because in his soul he knows that any prowess he shows is evidence of that Other Power. Therefore what Yanagi says is 'Take heed of the humble, be what you are by birthright, there is no room for arrogance'.

~ Bernard Leach

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

~ T.s. Eliot