Arrogance Quotes

“Selfishness”

“Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.”

“Your arrogance in your manhood prevents you from understanding.”

“I was sure that I was right, but arrogance is best left undisplayed.”

“Punishment is assigned for the swaggerer; he is afflicted with diseases.”

“Men see with arrogant eyes which organize everything seen with reference to themselves and their own interests.”

“How long will the wicked be jubilant?
They pour out arrogant words;
all the evildoers are full of boasting.”

“I think that Bush has alienated every friend that we've made over the last 200 years with his arrogance and indifference.”

“Do not scornfully turn your face away from people. Do not walk around puffed-up with pride; God does not love arrogant and boastful people.”

“And do not walk upon the earth exultantly. Indeed, you will never tear the earth (apart), and you will never reach the mountains in height.”

“And behold, We said to the angels: “Bow down to Adam” and they bowed down. Not so Iblis (Satan): he refused and was haughty: he was of those who reject Faith.”

“Totalitarian arrogance may pretend to change history and reality.
It devastates societies, traditions and individual freedom, but it will ultimately fail.”

“Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.”

“All the time, he hoped they would understand that his arrogance masked only shyness—or did he hope that it was his shyness which masked arrogance? He did not know.
Who could presume to know? The one quality holds much of the other. Both refuse to come forward and share.”

“With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.”

“An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in "inventing" something. It's an arrogance that some enjoy, and others do not. Now I reach beyond arrogance when I proclaim that fractals had been pictured forever but their true role remained unrecognized and waited for me to be uncovered.”

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'.”

“Then We will save those who were righteous, and We leave the wicked in it on their knees. And when Our clear revelations were recited to them, those who rejected said to those who believed: "Which of the two groups of ours is more in authority and more prosperous?" And how many generations have We destroyed before them? They had more wealth and more influence.”

“In our complex industrial civilization of today the peace of righteousness and justice, the only kind of peace worth having, is at least as necessary in the industrial world as it is among nations.''' There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part of the world of capital, to curb the cruel greed and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and unhealthy militarism in international relationships.”

“It is We Who created you and gave you shape; then We bade the angels bow down to Adam, and they bowed down; not so Iblis; He refused to be of those who bow down. (God) said: “What prevented thee from bowing down when I commanded thee?” He said: “I am better than he: Thou didst create me from fire, and him from clay.” (God) said: “Get thee down from this: it is not for thee to be arrogant here: get out, for thou art of the meanest (of creatures).””