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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. -- Henry Seidel Canby
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. -- John F. Kennedy
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. -- Chris Lowe
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. -- William Pollard
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. -- James D. Watson
Arrogance always destroys opportunity -- T. D. Jakes
Arrogance follows distribution strength. -- Henry Blodget
Arrogance frowns; pride smiles. -- Mason Cooley
Arrogance cometh before reality. -- Wes Fesler
Arrogance can be deadly. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom. -- Bion of Smyrna
Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly. -- Plato
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity. -- Plautus
Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself. -- Vitor Belfort
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth. -- Phil Heath
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom. -- Wilfred Bion
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance. -- Andy Hargreaves
Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb. -- Unarine Ramaru
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. -- Aesop
Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord. -- Radhanath Swami
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted. -- Andy Hargreaves
Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have. -- Dominic Riccitello
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. -- Ralph Neas
Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more. -- Steeven Shaw
Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside. -- Ujas Soni
Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency. -- Morley Safer
Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little. -- George Crabbe
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. -- Albert Camus
Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it. -- Jack Gleeson
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. -- Bob Lewis
Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize. -- Angelica Hopes
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. -- Sivananda
Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me... -- Muse
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. -- Alexander Pope
Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell.. -- Muse
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere -- Paulo Coelho
Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". -- Richard Nance
Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine. -- Veronica Roth
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. -- Charles Spurgeon
Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youÂ?re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys. -- Simon Sinek
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for. -- Aeschylus
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. -- Marisha Pessl
Arrogance can be deadly.â? The corners of his mouth crept up. â??But you didnâ??t hear me say that. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap. -- Mason Cooley
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him - -- Emily Dickinson
Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. -- Sydney J. Harris
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. -- George Stevens
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. -- Jack Welch
Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others. -- Cherie Carter-Scott
Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses. -- Debra Crown
Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything. -- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves. -- Pixie Lott
Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt. -- Immanuel Kant
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. -- Coco Chanel
I say this as a big sister in the faith hoping someone might learn an easier way. Arrogance does not bode well. It attracts the rod of God. -- Beth Moore
Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned. -- Thomas Bernhard
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance. -- Harvey Mackay
Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others. -- Desmond Tutu
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. -- Theodore Bikel
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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. -- Charles Horton Cooley
There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal. -- Anne Wilson Schaef
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. -- Leo Tolstoy
We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed. -- Osama bin Laden
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
The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn. -- John Templeton
And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite. -- Susanna Clarke
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
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. -- Willa Cather
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. -- Al-Ghazali
When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation. -- Nouman Ali Khan
When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation. -- Nouman Ali Khan
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. -- Graydon Carter
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. -- David Price
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities. -- Ziauddin Sardar
You don't know what you're talking about." "? Coyote "Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all." "? Choo Co La Tah -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices. -- Joanna Scott
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. -- David Mitchell
The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny -- Mark Twain
He has lulled himself into a false sense of competence -- Orlando McGuire
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. -- Samuel Butler
...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror -- Jorge Luis Borges
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. -- Marya Mannes
My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief. -- Conor McGregor
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you -- James A. Michener
In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility -- Master Jin Kwon
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility -- Simone de Beauvoir
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon -- Vanna Bonta
There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. -- Tony McCoy
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. -- Richard Hammond
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
The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times. -- Keyshawn Johnson
For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance -- Anthony Beal
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities -- David Hume
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
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
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
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. -- Rick Santorum
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science. -- Noam Chomsky
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended. -- Thomas Sankara
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. -- Rick Pitino
I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work. -- Michael Moore
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about. -- Penn Jillette
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. -- Moshe Safdie
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. -- Mehmet Oz
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment. -- Jason Segel
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever -- Howard Fast
It's nice to see arrogance humbled. -- Wellington Mara
It's only arrogance if you're wrong. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth. -- Terry Pratchett
The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence. -- Allen Ellow
It's not arrogance, it's just destiny. -- Randy Orton
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. -- Sun Tzu
Dilute your arrogance with a smile. -- Sukant Ratnakar

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