Top Arrogance Quotes Collection

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Image of Thomas Bernhard
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
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Image of Alexander Pope
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Osamu Tezuka
Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.
- Osamu Tezuka
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Image of Morley Safer
Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.
- Morley Safer
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Image of D. A. Carson
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
- D. A. Carson
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Image of Henry Blodget
Arrogance follows distribution strength.
- Henry Blodget
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Image of Lawrence Kushner
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
- Lawrence Kushner
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Image of Pearl S. Buck
The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Image of Wes Fesler
Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.
- Wes Fesler
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Image of Carol Tavris
Science is a form of arrogance control.
- Carol Tavris
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Image of Wilfred Bion
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
- Wilfred Bion
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Image of Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
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
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Image of J. Allen Hynek
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.
- J. Allen Hynek
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Image of Ibn Taymiyyah
The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off
- Ibn Taymiyyah
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Image of Vitor Belfort
Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.
- Vitor Belfort
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Image of George Crabbe
Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.
- George Crabbe
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Image of Jack Gleeson
Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.
- Jack Gleeson
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Image of Edgar Friedenberg
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
- Edgar Friedenberg
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Image of A. O. Scott
AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
- A. O. Scott
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Image of Phil Heath
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.
- Phil Heath
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Image of Milo Aukerman
There's something wrong with the system when you've got someone who can provide so much to a company and can be enthusiastic, but isn't management material or whatever. So a lot of that just gets defined as the person who speaks with the loudest voice and gets up there with the most arrogance and overly confident, chest-beating approach. Those are the ones that are going to get the golden ring.
- Milo Aukerman
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Image of Jan Burke
someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.
- Jan Burke
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Image of Howard Fast
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
- Howard Fast
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Image of Walter Russell Mead
What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.
- Walter Russell Mead
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Image of Nuruddin Farah
Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.
- Nuruddin Farah
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Image of Bob Lewis
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
- Bob Lewis
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Image of Jenny Holzer
My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.
- Jenny Holzer
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Image of Lucy Freeman
When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.
- Lucy Freeman
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Image of Robert Haugen
So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
- Robert Haugen
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Image of Alan Kay
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
- Alan Kay
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Image of Bion of Smyrna
Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.
- Bion of Smyrna
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Image of George Lee Butler
It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.
- George Lee Butler
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Image of Star Jones
[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.
- Star Jones
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Image of Richard Leakey
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
- Richard Leakey
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Image of Mark Durie
The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have to be Superior. What is different about Islam is it's not just a type of food you ate or the way you dress, it's a total system of life driven by values...
- Mark Durie
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Image of Michael Kazin
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
- Michael Kazin
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Image of Robert Ludlum
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
- Robert Ludlum
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Image of James O'Toole
The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.
- James O'Toole
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Image of Lawrence Fagg
To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
- Lawrence Fagg
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Image of Laozi
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
- Laozi
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Image of Os Guinness
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
- Os Guinness
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Image of Terry Pratchett
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Samuel Smiles
True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.
- Samuel Smiles
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Image of Frank Lloyd Wright
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Image of Rachel Caine
Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?
- Rachel Caine
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Steven Morrissey
There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.
- Steven Morrissey
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Image of Plautus
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
- Plautus
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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