Arrogance Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Humility, Science, Religion

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• It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Ifs

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

  Chris Lowe

  Stupid, Long, Ego

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Vanity, People, Soul

  Lewis B. Smedes (1978). “Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World”, p.35, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Religious, Islamic, Humble

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• 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

  Arrogance Of Youth, People, Tents

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• Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Breakup

  Song: Shot for Me, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• 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

  Moving, Pride, Other Cultures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Boys, Ideas, Doubt

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• There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Simple, Looks, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

  Morley Safer

  Use, Rooms, Common

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• Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

  Sivananda

  Self, Mixtures, Rudeness

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• Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Humility, History

  "The Future of Architecture".

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• Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

  Renford Reese

  Beautiful, Humility, Empathy

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• Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Lying, Inspiration, Heart

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• The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Freedom, Work, Rome

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• To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

  Samuel Johnson

  Unhappy, Privilege, Arrogant

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.32

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  Edmund Burke

  Time, Arrogance Of Youth, Age

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

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

  James A. Michener

  Artist, Profound

  "The Michener Phenomenon". Interview with Caryn James, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1985.

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

  Samuel Butler

  Ignorance, Character, Pride

  Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225

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• 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

  Strong, Humility, Justice

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

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Kings

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• What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

  David Duchovny

  Air, Mad, Pretension

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• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Philosophy, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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