Arrogance Quotes

Most popular arrogance quotes

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires. - Wendell Berry quote.
There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed. - Simone de Beauvoir quote.
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

heaven

He was like a cock, who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. - George Eliot quote.
He was like a cock, who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.

work excellence

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 quote.
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.

science

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood. - George Santayana quote.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. - Marya Mannes quote.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

talent timing

When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you. Otherwise they just call you arrogant. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote.
When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you. Otherwise they just call you arrogant.

human nature

If assholes don't find you arrogant, you are doing something wrong.