Quotes on Arrogance
“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
David Hume, Mistakes, Arrogance
"Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things."
bell hooks, Intelligence/Wisdom, Arrogance
"I saved a life. My own. Am I a hero?… I really can’t say, but yes!"
Michael Scott, Arrogance
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau, Arrogance, Art, Life
"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
Stephen Hawking, Arrogance
"I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful."
Steve Jobs, Arrogance, Success
"A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person."
Zig Ziglar, Arrogance
"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going."
Carl Jung, Arrogance
"I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.
From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.
We do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I— what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know."
Socrates, Arrogance Intelligence/Wisdom
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."
Bertrand Russell, Arrogance
There was once a Dog who used to snap at people and bite them without any provocation, and who was a great nuisance to every one who came to his master's house. So his master fastened a bell round his neck to warn people of his presence. The Dog was very proud of the bell, and strutted about tinkling it with immense satisfaction. But an old dog came up to him and said, "The fewer airs you give yourself the better, my friend. You don't think, do you, that your bell was given you as a reward of merit? On the contrary, it is a badge of disgrace."
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.”
Aesop, Arrogance
"The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit."
Aesop, Arrogance
"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde, Arrogance
"Those that won’t be counseled can’t be helped."
Benjamin Franklin, Arrogance
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Benjamin Franklin, Arrogance
"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
Confucius, Arrogance
"Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise."