"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

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

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

"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"

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change"