Arrogance Quotations

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

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

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

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.'

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

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.

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

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.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

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.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

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.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

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.

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'

Many in the unions have demonstrated a level of arrogance and even greed.

She was so young, inexperienced and unlearned and yet she was able to accomplish these amazing things. The fact that she is a woman in those dark times of stupidity and arrogance brought innocence and feminine power to that period.

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire. He is a victim of his own arrogance. He may well be on the way out of office.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

I am a lot more comfortable, ... There's a difference between arrogance and being confident. I'm not arrogant but I feel a lot more confidence about what I do.

I do not see myself as an example to anybody for anything. I think that is arrogance at its best. That is obnoxious; that is so offensive.

He has a pure love of the game, no arrogance, and no fear of failure.

He has to let everyone know he's the best player on the floor. It could be arrogance, but it sure is fun to watch.

He who seeks truth, shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty, shall find vanity. He who seeks order, shall find gratification.He who seeks gratification, shall find disappointment. He who considers himself a servant of his fellow beings,shall find joy of self expression. He who seeks self expression, shall fall to the pit of arrogance. Arrogance is incompatible with nature. Through nature, the nature of the universe and the nature of man,we shall seek truth. If we seek truth we shall find beauty.

There is an arrogance across the aisle that believes the Senate should not have a seat at the table.

recognized that Utah and Nevada should be united against the arrogance of the East Coast dumping its waste on the West. We still have never addressed the transportation risks, whether on the roads or rails to Skull Valley or Yucca Mountain. That is why this lethal cargo should stay where it is until an acceptable disposal solution can be found.

suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego.

suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego. He is no longer willing to acknowledge the contributions of his former partners...

President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the reconstruction of the area, each of us with our own responsibilities. ... I don't think that arrogance is the best companion.

I think the big issue has to do with a sense of arrogance that a freshman legislator, in such a short period of time, starts bucking the governor.

I think the country needed to know the arrogance - the reckless arrogance - that was going on in the Oval Office.

I think there's a sense of arrogance and entitlement here, a complacency in the United States.

I think people enjoy pomposity and arrogance as long as it's pointed at you.

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.

I think we've seen in this session and in past sessions a kind of an arrogance from the legislature that they know best rather than the people. They don't trust the people to make decisions in their own interest.

I think it's an act of petulance and arrogance to say not only do we demand what we demand, but we insist on taking it before anybody has given an independent ruling that we're entitled to,

The arrogance displayed by the Duke players is so disturbing. The fact that so many athletes have decided to withhold information really says something about their moral compass.

The arrogance of Sikorsky has been astounding. As one of our country's major defense contractors, Sikorsky throughout this ordeal showed its disdain for workers, our elected officials and ultimately, the American taxpayers. This company is the poster child for bad behavior and corporate greed. We will continue our fight against this company and against the growing, unchecked power of all of big business in America.

the arrogance of this body in completely ignoring the resolution of a lawsuit (that was settled) in a way that was agreeable to both parties.

My career could have ended on a play that I went out on the field arrogant, I did some things I never should do. I learned a valuable lesson in that. If you go out there with a sense of arrogance and you haven't accomplished anything, you set yourself up for failure. Looking at that and looking at her miscue, it brought back some painful memories for me.

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

We have not seen any glimpse of his legendary, hair- trigger temper or the arrogance that personified his conduct at Enron.

Arrogance can be deadly.

Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.