Arrogance Quotes

I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true! --Ann Newton/Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

~ Rebecca Hitchcock

At his request--a Custer request was a command impossible to refuse--I produced a series of prints for the Centennial Expedition at Philadelphia: the general with Bloody Knife, his favorite Indian scout; with the Custers' pack of eighty dogs; with his junior officers, planning the destruction of the Lakota Sioux; with Libbie in the parlor of their quarters at the fort; and the general striking a pose that would become as recognizable as Napoléon's; arms folded across his chest, looking forward and slightly upward at his magnificent destiny.

~ Norman Lock

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

~ Harold Holzer

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Dominance can be a tempration to division. There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

~ Richard Brookhiser

The most crucial truths are always rejected before they're accepted. he says gazing out of space.It's one of our greatest human flaws: arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the universe is unknowable.

~ Romina Russell

He seemed like the type that kept people at arm's length, maybe out of arrogance or maybe from personal choice- either way, I wanted to know him so that those eyes were narrowed and focused solely on me.

~ R.s. Grey

If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.

~ Anna Freeman

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

~ Lennox D. Lampkin

For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?

~ Renee Ahdieh

There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.

~ Brian D. Mclaren

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

~ Tom Clancy

When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

~ Vishwas Chavan

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn't been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a dirty room whose bookshelves were crammed with empty bourbon bottles and crucifixes, mute testimony to the limits of literature as a sustaining comfort in life.

~ Maureen Corrigan

I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she’s a bit full of herself.

~ Graeme Simsion

Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb.

~ Unarine Ramaru

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

~ Brian Spellman

In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.

~ Caitlin Crews

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

~ Sandra Dallas

Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans.We only value mankind as our experimentation object.

~ Toba Beta

There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are numerous people, on the other hand, who are fierce crusaders at the price of fanaticism. In his political commitments the fanatic makes claims for his particular case which cannot be validated by either a transcendent Providence or a neutral posterity.

~ Elton Trueblood

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

~ Charles A. Coulombe

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.

~ Toba Beta

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

~ Max Lucado

There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.

~ David G. Mcafee

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

~ Oscar Levant

Science is a form of arrogance control.

~ Carol Tavris

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

~ Dennis Garvin

One guy yelled at me, 'You stupid bitch, how do you live like that with nothing in your brain?' Well, that did it. I wasn't going to put up with that. Ok, I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working classes that get exploited. What kind of revolution is it that just throws out big words that working-class people can't understand? What kind of crap social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. Am I right, or what?

~ Haruki Murakami

There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.

~ Angelica Hopes

Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders. Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.

~ Garry Wills

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

~ Richard M. Weaver

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

~ Walker Percy

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

~ Ron Suskind

Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.

~ Jeff Ashton