453 quotes found
“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.”
“My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.”
“arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom”
“Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.”
“He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.”
“Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.”
“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.”
“Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!”
“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.”
“Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.”
“Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed.”
“In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether you...”
“I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.”
“You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight.""Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed ou...”
“A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - ri...”
“There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are numerous people, on the other hand, who are fierce crusaders at the price of...”
“Arrogant people beat each other.”
“Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.”
“There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.”
“If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.”
