Arrogance Quotes

You're so arrogant, you're almost macho.

~ Peggy Webb

Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

~ Blaise Pascal

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.

~ Edward O. Wilson

Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.

~ R. Alan Woods

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings, with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken, and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.

~ Jane Austen

Confirming what you see as reality...is a true sign of your arrogance.

~ Lionel Suggs

Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.

~ Bianca Frazier

The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there’s arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.

~ Cheryl Strayed

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

~ Dan Simmons

How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.

~ George Eliot

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.

~ Toba Beta

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

~ Muhammad Yunus

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

~ Pat Conroy

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday - because of a doctor's arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are clinicians, scientists. We observe time-honored procedures and analyses - that's how we are trained. And this is what happens when we subjugate that training to arrogance!

~ Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Love is the blind revelation of arrogance.

~ Lionel Suggs

They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren’t much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

~ Eric Metaxas

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but that's just, I think if you don't have attitude, it comes only with self confidence. So if you don't have self confidence, you won't have attitude, and I think there's a difference when you have attitude and when you have arrogance.

~ Sania Mirza

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

~ Marcia Angell

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

~ Steffi Graf

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

~ Edmund Burke

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

~ Barbra Streisand

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

~ Radhanath Swami

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

~ Rory Mcilroy

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

~ John C. Maxwell

Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don't act as though they're better than you because they don't think that they're better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them.

~ Travis Bradberry

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

~ Leo Tolstoy

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

~ Conor Mcgregor

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

~ Reed Hastings

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright