Arrogance Quotes: Insights on Pride and Conceit

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance"

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his 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, Philosopher

"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, Author

"I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

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

David Geffen, Businessman

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

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"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, Scientist

"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, Architect

"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, President

"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"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, Criminal

"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"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, Scientist

"Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth"

Phil Heath, Athlete

"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

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

James A. Michener, Novelist

"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, Actress

"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, Sociologist

"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them"

Knute Nelson, Politician

"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, Businessman

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

Knute Nelson, Politician

"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, Actor

"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 E. Price, Politician

"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, Poet

"Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth"

Cornel West, Educator

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

Chen Shui-bian, Statesman

"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, Playwright

"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, Actor

"What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

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

Joe Biden, Vice President

"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way"

Chris Lowe, Musician

"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, Clergyman

"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, Director

"Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel"

Joe Klein, Journalist

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