Top 100 Arrogance Is Quotes
#1. Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
Wilfred Bion
#2. Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.
Bianca Frazier
#3. Arrogance is no substitute for experience,Fey.
C.L. Wilson
#4. 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.
Thomas Bernhard
#6. Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
Coco Chanel
#7. Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.
Cixin Liu
#9. Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.
George Crabbe
#10. Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself.
John Bradshaw
#11. Intelligence is the unlimited ability to conceive of concepts, and arrogance is the belief that one "knows" anything.
Monk E. Mind
#12. Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.
Lewis B. Smedes
#13. Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.
Toba Beta
#14. Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
Plautus
#15. The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
Saint Augustine
#16. The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.
Jim Rohn
#17. If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
Helen Van Slyke
#18. Why is it that churches and religions and that whole gang behave as if they have got the whole God knowledge down. I mean what kind of arrogance is that?
Art Hochberg
#20. Arrogance is bitterness' favourite mask.
Dorian Zari
#21. On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Andy Hargreaves
#23. The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.
Pixie Lott
#24. Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else,
Confidence is knowing no one is above you.
Habeeb Akande
#25. Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.
Charles Koch
#26. Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
Plato
#28. America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Saul Alinsky
#29. An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.
Otto Weininger
#30. A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.
Orrin Woodward
#31. Egos get in the way of ideas. If your arrogance is more obvious than your expertise, you are someone other people avoid.
Jessica Hagy
#32. Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.
Liu Cixin
#33. Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
Aeschylus
#34. The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her.
Michael Scott
#35. Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.
Jack Gleeson
#36. Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
Randy Pausch
#37. Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.
Balroop Singh
#38. He realized ... that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
Isabel Allende
#39. Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.
It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.
Toba Beta
#41. The soul is a liar, it's lying to you. A little arrogance is good for the soul though.
Vincent De Paul
#42. Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.
Ziauddin Sardar
#43. The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.
Alain Badiou
#44. Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.
David Kinnaman
#45. Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
Yasmin Mogahed
#46. Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.
Amelie Nothomb
#47. Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
Immanuel Kant
#48. It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#49. An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#50. Arrogance is a veneer
a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
Bob Lewis
#52. If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problems. Arrogant people rarely read or listen to experts. Why should they? They are the center of the universe.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#53. Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#54. Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart
I know. It is often in mine.
Veronica Roth
#55. The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
Yasmin Mogahed
#56. I think, tribalism is a mental prison ... and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one's ability to abandon it.
Duop Chak Wuol
#57. Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Sivananda
#58. Confidence is a tool. Arrogance is a disadvantage.
Courtney Lane
#59. From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.
Gautama Buddha
#60. Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you're better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.
Simon Sinek
#61. Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.
Lionel Suggs
#63. We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here at the end of it all, long after we're gone. The only thing the human race is destroying is our ability to inhabit it.
Luke Gracias
#64. I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.
Bill Kaulitz
#65. The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing.
Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.
Toba Beta
#66. People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
Carl Sagan
#67. When your sense of respect for others..
Your humility despite a chance at arrogance..
is MISCONSTRUED, MISUNDERSTOOD AND JUDGED..
Put a stop , pull the brakes..Some people do not deserve it!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#68. Listening is central to the development of humility. Arrogance speaks. Humility listens.
Brad Lomenick
#69. There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#70. It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.
George Lee Butler
#71. For some people, 'erudition' is nothing more than a vehicle for hostility and arrogance; 'good taste' merely an excuse for condescension--or worse, censorship -- Sadie
Alice Kimberly
#72. There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
Pope Francis
#73. He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.
Christopher Paolini
#74. There is a difference between Confidence and Arrogance..
Both look alike but stem from two very different sources..
One comes from Self Belief and the other comes from Ego..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#75. When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.
Nouman Ali Khan
#76. If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
R.C. Sproul
#77. I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
#78. I don't think the NFL has ever seen the likes of me, a quarterback who moves the way I do and throws the way I do. I'm not saying that with arrogance or anything. That is just how I feel.
Michael Vick
#79. You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.
Iyanla Vanzant
#80. What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.
Jon Landau
#81. All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
Theodore Bikel
#82. So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
Robert Haugen
#83. One of our greatest challenges is to handle Winning without arrogance, being educated without being condescending and having compassion without developing indifference
Kalon Jackson
#84. There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.
Marcia Angell
#85. "Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
Werner Heisenberg
#86. It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.
Criss Jami
#87. It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.
John Landgraf
#88. One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
Alexander Haig
#90. Frost? What is frost' she demanded in glorious arrogance.
Joanne Valiukas
#91. This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.
Gary Hamel
#92. I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#93. To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
Samuel Johnson
#94. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#95. How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and satisfaction.
Barbara Hodgson
#96. The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement "the arrogance of belonging," and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#97. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]
Edmund Burke
#98. I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth'
or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.
Rachel Carson
#99. He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.
Jonas Karlsson
#100. Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.
Thomas Sankara
