Famous Quotes & Sayings

They have a very quiet arrogance about them, like they expected to come in and do this,

George Stevens

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Jerry Pournelle

The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

And to be perfectly blunt, I think only fools would bet the lives of other men's sons and daughters on their own arrogance and call this force a cakewalk or a speed bump or something that you can dismiss.

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.'

We are used to this type of clich? statements by the United States, and also the arrogance that is associated with the statement,

At that time, the United States was at the height of its arrogance and our country also was not yet ready to go to the UN Security Council.

There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Ralph Neas

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

Sherman Alexie

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

Michel de Montaigne

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Mason Cooley

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Margaret Mead

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

Joely Richardson

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

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?

If you continue with a foreign policy when you're arrogant, it makes it harder to hunt down terrorists. Arrogance leaves us isolated.

James Taranto

It's not easy to cram so much idiocy, mendacity and arrogance into nine words. ... Dean's assertion is impossible to support rationally.

Paul Myers

I'm surprised they've taken things quite as slowly as they have. It's that sort of arrogance and lethargy that made Napster happen. Where is the real action?

In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility.

Jack Gleeson

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

Eric Liu

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

Guy Laliberte

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

Dan Benishek

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

Joe Gill

Both of them were very classy when they played here - never any baloney, never any arrogance. They just came to play. You couldn't get them out, but you appreciated how they played.

Yasser Arafat

This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.

This is an artificial, 15 percent criteria, ... The whole arrogance and smugness of establishing this threshold, it's a discrimination issue and a fairness issue.

The three hires were brilliant hires from everyone else's view. The sheer arrogance and recklessness of this has divided the union in a way that might be irreparable.

It's an interesting kind of arrogance to dismiss something that you don't know a lot about.

Francesca Annis

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.

Steven Morrissey

There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.