Quotes on Arrogance

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.

Author: Theodore Bikel

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

Author: Catherine Bowen

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

Author: William Buckley, Jr.

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

Author: Samuel Butler

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

Author: Taylor Caldwell

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

Author: Henry Canby

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.

Author: Willa Cather

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.

Author: Charles Cooley

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.

Author: James Denton

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.

Author: Stephen Gould

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.

Author: Osama Laden

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

Author: Chris Lowe

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Author: James Michener

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

Author: Ralph Neas

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

Author: Knute Nelson

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.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Author: Ross Perot

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.

Author: David Price

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

Author: Chen Shui-bian

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.

Author: George Stevens

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.

Author: Patrick Stewart

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

Author: Kim Weston