Arrogance Quotes

• close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Bullying, Conceited

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press

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• Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.

  Bion of Smyrna

  Obstruction

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• Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

  Desmond Tutu

  Feelings, Insecurity, Flip

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• What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Shame, Ends

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Unjust, Opinion, Judgment

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.366, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

  Immanuel Kant

  Thinking, Honor, Followers

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Believe, People, Support

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.70, Random House

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• Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

  Jim Rohn

  Ignorance, Conceited, Kind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2017

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• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

  David Hume

  Men, Stupidity, Arrogant

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Arrogant Person, Perfect, Becoming

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy (p. 110), 1909.

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• The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

  John Templeton

  Wall, Humility, Opposites

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• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Vanity, Riches

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.406, Courier Corporation

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• Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Fear, Islamic, Pride

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 72,

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• Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

  Wes Fesler

  Ignorant, Arrogant, Moments

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  No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Arrogant, Aggressive

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• 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

  Nature, Thinking, Men

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• If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• 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

  Exercise, Hype, Ties

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• Martha Stewart published her recipe for disaster -- mix one part arrogance with two parts incompetence, simmer in the juices and then serve hot in the can.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Hot, Juice

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• False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

  David Mitchell

  Modesty, False Modesty

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

  Joe Biden

  Example, Nuclear

  "All-Star Panel: Harry Reid and the 'nuclear option'". "Special Report", www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2012.

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

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Workout, British, Tricks

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

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