Quotes and Sayings About Arrogance
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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
-- A. O. Scott -
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 -
No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.
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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 KaySource : YouTube Channel "Jeff Gonis"/"Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet", www.youtube.com. February 11, 2013.
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The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.
-- Alan Redpath -
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
-- Albert Camus -
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
-- Albert Camus -
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
-- Alexander Haig -
Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
-- Ali MacGraw -
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
-- Amy Tan -
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
-- Barbara Mertz -
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Arrogance can be deadly.†The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
-- Beryl Markham -
I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.
-- Bill Kaulitz -
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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.
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There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
-- Bob Herbert -
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
-- Bob Lewis -
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I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
-- Brian Molko -
[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.
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Science is a form of arrogance control.
-- Carol TavrisSource : Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson (2008). “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
-- Catherine Drinker BowenSource : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
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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