Arrogance Quotes - Page 28

• The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.

  Henry Beston

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Congratulations, Self, Hymns

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.227, Penguin

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• The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than any other creature. I have had long and fruitful relationshis with many nonhuman animals, both domesticated and wild, and have reveled in the bouquet of radically different intelligences - different forms, not different "quantities" that they have introduced to me, each in his or her own time, in his or her own way.

  Derrick Jensen

  Intelligent, Animal, Long

  Derrick Jensen, Karen Tweedy-Holmes (2007). “Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos”, p.87, No Voice Unheard

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• I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

  Barry Hannah

  Gratitude, Believe, Writing

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• Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

  T. D. Jakes

  Progress, Purpose, Ends

  T.D. Jakes (2007). “Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.

  Al-Ghazali

  Cheating, Lying, Islamic

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• Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

  Joseph Addison

  Pride, Men, Riches

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• The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hands, Able, Staggering

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.411, Faber & Faber

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• All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  Sun Tzu

  Strong, Deception, Warfare

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• There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Justice, Diversity

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428

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• The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Christian, Heaven, Ifs

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• If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Humility, Library

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected.

  George Henry Lewes

  Book, Victory, Mind

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Ignorance, Combination, Historian

  "'Little Eichmanns' and 'Digital Brownshirts'" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.nationalreview.com. March 18, 2005.

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• There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

  Margaret Deland

  People, Doubt, Pearls

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• Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Mind, Civility

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.651, Delphi Classics

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• the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Spiritual, Strong, Desire

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• Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

  Alice Walker

  Education, Ignorance, Racism

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• Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Believe, Appreciate, Failing

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• Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Teaching, Islam, Demand

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.129, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Trends, Modesty

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• Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Complaining, Injustice

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• Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

  Janet Morris

  Pride, Men, Magic

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• Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humility, Pride, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse (2006). “The Heart of a Goof”

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• To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

  Dan Barker

  Running, Prayer, Thinking

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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