Quotes About Ignorance And Arrogance

#1. I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.

Faraaz Kazi

#2. 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

#3. The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.

Hamid Drake

#4. Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no
idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.

Steven Pressfield

#5. English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

T. S. Eliot

#7. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Criss Jami

#8. Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

Metallica

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

Alice Walker

#11. Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Graydon Carter

#12. There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.

Francis S. Collins

#13. Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Paul David Tripp

#14. Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

Steve Alten

#15. To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. Genet suggested that colonialism would crumble from the weight of its ignorance, its arrogance and greed, and that the oppressed would take over the positions of their former masters. They would be no better, no more courageous and no more merciful. I

Maya Angelou

#17. 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

#18. Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Cornel West

#19. 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

#20. Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram's grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

Pawan Mishra

#21. He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.

Jonathan Yardley

#23. There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.

Ian-Anthony Finnimore

#24. I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Samuel Butler

#26. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

William Hazlitt

#27. Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.

Cixin Liu

#28. When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

#29. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#30. We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

John Trudell

#31. The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

Jim Rohn

#32. True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Josh Billings

#33. Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

Andy Hargreaves

#34. Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

James Rozoff

#35. Different skin color and same blood color is something that most people don't know, they don't know because arrogance make them racist and ignorant.

Werley Nortreus

#36. How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

Sorin Cerin

#37. quotation from Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.' I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.

Douglas Preston

#38. Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority over anything else?

Or was it the opposite? Was he of the age where he had the ignorance of youth coupled with the arrogance of adulthood?

Wildbow

#39. Don't mistake:
Kindness with weakness;
Assertiveness with arrogance;
Self-defense with hatred;
Self-care with vanity;
Faith with ignorance.

Charles F. Glassman

#40. A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

Orrin Woodward

#41. If it's not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I'm interested in but don't yet know. It's when they explain things to me I know and they don't that the conversation goes awry.

Rebecca Solnit

#42. Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.

Liu Cixin

#43. You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#44. Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana