Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Ralph Neas

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

Sherman Alexie

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Plautus

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Plato

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

Mason Cooley

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Margaret Mead

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

Morley Safer

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

Lisa Unger

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

Henry Blodget

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

James Corden

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

Jon Landau

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

The magnitude of this public corruption will only be matched by the arrogance of the man who committed these acts.

Jim Calhoun

Their arrogance doesn't show. They are not doing any kind of chest thumping that some teams carry, in my opinion, too far.

Morshed Khan

This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.

Sophocles

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

Richard Dawkins

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

Robert Ludlum

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

Walter Russell

The taint of arrogance will I not know...

Saint Augustine

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.

Walter Russell Mead

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

Terry Pratchett

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Shunryu Suzuki

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

Marcus Aurelius

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

Samuel Johnson

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

Simone de Beauvoir

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

Thomas Bernhard

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

Steven Morrissey

There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

T. D. Jakes

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

Ross Perot

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.