Arrogance Quotes - Page 18

• I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

  Joyce Stranger

  Lying, Cat, Grace

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• The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  People, Would Be, Sin

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• Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Ignorance, World, Relation

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• Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Feels, Dependent, Despised

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• We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.

  Michio Kushi

  Opposites, Dissolving, Knows

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• The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.

  Harry Golden

  Turkeys, Toss, Enough

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• Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

  Paul David Tripp

  Stupid, Ignorance, Pride

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• Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

  Martin Luther

  Want, Christ, Reason

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”

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• And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Frustration, Men, Order

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• Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, what happens when we die, what will happen in the future, etc.

  Guy P. Harrison

  Origin Of Life, Guy, Records

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• To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Winning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity is a certain reverence before the primordial mystery of existence, for the world about us is a fearsome mode of being. We do not judge the universe.

  Thomas Berry

  Judging, World, Remember

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.50, Crown

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• America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven."

  John Hagee

  Spiritual, Art, Father

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• Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Block, Agency, Organization

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• In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Stupid, Humorous, America

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• The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Philosophy, Design, Humanity

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• If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Adversity, Successful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Thinking, Used

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• The true gospel of Jesus Christ never led to bigotry. It never led to self-righteousn ess. It never led to arrogance. The true gospel of Jesus Christ leads to brotherhood, to friendship, to appreciation of others, to respect and kindness and love

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Appreciation, Jesus, Kindness

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• If you yearn for holy felicity,
  shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

  Rumi

  Heart, Holy, Felicity

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.

  Jon Foreman

  Mean, Pride, People

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• Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

  Margaret Way

  Men, Forget, Worst

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• Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Confidence, Sweet, Expectations

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• Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

  Freeman Dyson

  Stars, Rocks, Hands

  "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb". Documentary film, 1981.

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• Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

  John Hope Bryant

  Self, World, Indifference

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