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We often betray our arrogance or immaturity by asserting that we will never do something bad that we are capable of doing.

Wenn ich den Eindruck hätte, dass in dem, was Sie da sagen, auch nur ein Körnchen Vernunft steckt, würde ich mir vielleicht die Mühe machen, mich auf eine solche Diskussion einzulassen. Aber wie die Dinge liegen, werde ich einfach an etwas anderes denken, während Sie weiter vor sich hin plappern.

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

We're all bewildered, but most bewildered of all are those who think they know the truth.

What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.

When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise. I learnt to take the course of my life, not by violence but rather with intelligence.

When pride gets in the way, who you think you are doesn’t allow you to be who you need to be.

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.

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)]

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!

After I began working, I realised there's no end line. I believe that money has nothing to do with your personal success. On the face of it, I'm the biggest capitalist of all. I have all the riches. I'm the living proof of what stardom should be in material terms. But I've never sold my soul. I've not done anything which I didn't want to do. I've not done films for money. I'm not saying this with arrogance but I've never asked for a film.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.

You're so arrogant, you're almost macho.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

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.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

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

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

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.

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.

Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.

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

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

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

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.

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.