Arrogance Quotes - Page 27

• The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humble, Pride

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pride, Prosperity, Disdain

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 B.C..

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• Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe, Inspire, Believe In Yourself

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Aug 01, 2011

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• The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

  Criss Jami

  Ego Problem, Challenges, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

  James Crawford

  Justice, Diversity, Freedom Of Speech

  James Crawford (1992). “Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mouths, Corners

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

  N. T. Wright

  Healing, Pride, Greed

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.56, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.

  Dave Ulrich

  Dedication, People, Leader

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

  Saint Augustine

  Together, May, Sides

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• In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jail, Enemy, Arrogant

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.

  Jean Ziegler

  Rocks, Self, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, he imitates his master, and of all tyrants the worst is a slave in power.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.444, Library of Alexandria

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• Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Arrogant

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• Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

  Plato

  Folly

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• The taint of arrogance will I not know.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Knows

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• The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Government, People, Liberty

  "A Pillar of Iron". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1965.

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• My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

  Lance Armstrong

  Attitude, Winning, Desire

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

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• If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Hangover, Wine, Humility

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humility, Humble

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

  A. O. Scott

  Levels, Film, Incompetence

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• You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.

  Jonathan Yardley

  War, Ignorance, Government

  "David Halberstam". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.

  Thomas Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

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• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Smart, Lying, Thinking

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