100+ Arrogance Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: 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

topic: Arrogance, Form

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

source: Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

topic: Arrogance, British, Tricks, Unconsciousness

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

topic: Children, Arrogance, Credit

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Arrogance, Unjust, Opinion, Judgment Of Others

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

- Chen Shui-bian

topic: Arrogance, Behavior, Refrain

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Cat, Dragons, Arrogance, Supreme Confidence

The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.

- Christopher Zeeman

topic: Believe, Giving, Arrogance, Theorems

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.47, Criss Jami

topic: Two, Arrogance, Faces

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

- D. A. Carson

topic: Arrogance, Crosses, Humans

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

- Dan Benishek

topic: Arrogance, Debt, Waste, Enough Is Enough

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

- David Duchovny

topic: Air, Mad, Arrogance

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

- David Geffen

topic: Kids, Arrogance, Draws

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

- David Hume

topic: Art, Arrogance, Mind, Deference, Art Of Conversation

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

- David Mitchell

topic: Arrogance, Modesty, False Modesty

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Eden, Arrogance, World

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

- Dirk Benedict

topic: Numbers, Arrogance, Losing

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

- Don Cupitt

topic: People, Arrogance, Would Be, Humanitarianism, Objectivism

That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.

- Donny Deutsch

topic: Responsibility, People, Arrogance

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

topic: Arrogance, Taft, Littles, Financial Success

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

topic: Spiritual, Taken, Arrogance

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

- Edgar Friedenberg

topic: Arrogance, Want, Kind, Shabby

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

- Edna Ferber

topic: Self Confidence, People, Arrogance, Empty Places

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

- Elvis Costello

topic: People, Arrogance, Speak, Pomposity

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Arrogance, Essentials, Conceit

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

- Eric Bana

topic: Frustration, Careers, Arrogance

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.

- Eric Mangini

topic: Believe, Arrogance, Weakness

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.Â And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

- Eric Shinseki

topic: Commitment, Leader, Arrogance

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..

- Eric Shinseki

topic: Leadership, Arrogance, Vacuums

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element.

- Ernst Haeckel

topic: Mother, Men, Arrogance

In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'

- Evgeny Morozov

topic: Philosophy, Evil, Arrogance

His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.

- Faraaz Kazi

topic: Heart, Stupidity, Arrogance, Scolded

On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

- Fareed Zakaria

source: "The Price Of Arrogance". www.newsweek.com. May 05, 2004.

topic: Iraq, Issues, Arrogance

A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.

- Frances Trollope

source: Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.325

topic: Country, Race, Arrogance

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

- Francesca Annis

topic: People, Arrogance, Youth, Arrogance Of Youth

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

- Francis Chan

topic: Thinking, Make You Think, Arrogance

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

- Francis Chan

topic: Stress, Worry, Arrogance

Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us.

- Francis Crick

topic: Thinking, Arrogance, Ruthlessness, Youthful Arrogance

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

- Francois Mauriac

topic: Doubt, Arrogance, Despair

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Order, Arrogance, Desire

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Boys, Ideas, Arrogance

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

topic: Arrogance, Merit, Offensive, Philosphy, Youthful Arrogance

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

- Gary Hamel

topic: Change, Arrogance, Way

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

- George Crabbe

topic: Arrogance, Littles, Presumption

In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected.

- George Henry Lewes

topic: Book, Arrogance, Mind

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

source: George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Arrogance, Brutality, Fierce

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

- Goldwin Smith

topic: Character, Arrogance, Jokes

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

- Guy Laliberte

topic: People, Arrogance, Tents, Cirque Du Soleil, Arrogance Of Youth

Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, what happens when we die, what will happen in the future, etc.

- Guy P. Harrison

topic: Guy, Arrogance, Records, Being Accused, Origin Of Life

The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.

- Harry Golden

topic: Turkeys, Arrogance, Toss

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Nature, Arrogance, Bees

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

- Henry Seidel Canby

topic: Teaching, Learning, Arrogance, Dogmatism, Pedantry

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

- Hermann Minkowski

topic: Color, Heaven, Arrogance, Theorems

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

- Howard Fast

source: Howard Fast (1977). “The Immigrants”, Dell Publishing Company

topic: Arrogance, Nerves, Yiddish

Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

- Hugh B. Brown

source: Hugh B. Brown (1999). “An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown”

topic: Emotional, Arrogance, Answers, False Assumptions

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

- Ibn Taymiyyah

topic: Arrogance, Disease, Worship

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death â€” this infantile fixation of mine â€” was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry â€” with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.

- Ingmar Bergman

topic: Night, Feelings, Arrogance, Fixation

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

topic: Suffering, Arrogance, May, Vantage Point, Provincialism

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

- Jack Gleeson

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Arrogance, Emotion

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

- James A. Michener

topic: Artist, Profound, Arrogance

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

- James Corden

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

topic: Arrogance, Sometimes, Over Confidence

With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

- James Crawford

source: James Crawford (1992). “Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

topic: Justice, Freedom Of Speech, Arrogance

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

- James Denton

topic: Thinking, Leader, Arrogance

someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

- Jan Burke

source: Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

topic: Arrogance, Accepted, Application, Being Accepted

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Smart, Personality, Arrogance, Smugness

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Smart, Arrogance, Smugness

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

topic: Arrogance, Lucky, Today

The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

- Jerry Pournelle

topic: Arrogance, Bishops, Kind, Witch Hunt, Anathema

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Ignorance, Arrogance, Kind

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

- Joe Biden

topic: Arrogance, Example, Nuclear

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

- Joely Richardson

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Arrogance, Firsts, Youth, Arrogance Of Youth

Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself.

- John Bradshaw

source: John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.123, Health Communications, Inc.

topic: Years, Arrogance, Tragedy, Arrogant Person

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

- John Hope Bryant

topic: Self, Arrogance, World, Self Absorption

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

- John Landgraf

source: "Yahoo Rolls the Dice on TV". www.nytimes.com. April 13, 2014.

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Arrogance

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Pride, Men, Arrogance

And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

- Josh Lanyon

topic: Horse, Selfish, Arrogance

The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.

- Kabir

topic: Tree, Arrogance, Gone

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself -- from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

- Kalle Lasn

source: "Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must". Book by Kalle Lasn, 1999.

topic: America, Arrogance, Needs, Liberators, American Values

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

- Ken Burns

topic: Inspiring, Past, Arrogance

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

topic: Arrogance, Swagger, Definitions

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

topic: Kindness, Government, Arrogance, Fours

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

- Knute Nelson

topic: Mean, Arrogance, Use

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

- Lance Armstrong

topic: Attitude, Winning, Arrogance, Desire To Win, Win At All Costs

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

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Perfect, Arrogance, Becoming, Becoming A Better Person, Arrogant People

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

source: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

topic: Glowing, Color, Arrogance, Venus In Furs

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

- LeRoy Neiman

topic: People, Arrogance, Use, God Given Talents

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

- Lucy Freeman

topic: Arrogance, Frightened, Snob

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

- Marcia Angell

topic: Powerful, Attitude, Arrogance

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

- Marco Pierre White

source: "Q & A With Marco Pierre White: Escoffier, Television, Packaged Soup + The French Foreign Legion". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. August 18, 2011.

topic: Humility, Greatness, Arrogance

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

source: "A Pillar of Iron". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1965.

topic: Government, People, Arrogance

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Rome, Land, Arrogance, Foreign Lands, Treasury

If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Book, Humility, Arrogance

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.