Quotes about Arrogance
But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.
— Thomas Merton
When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
— Thomas Merton
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.
— CS Lewis
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
— CS Lewis
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
— George Bernard Shaw
To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.
— Isabel Allende
I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.
— Isabel Allende
When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
— Muhammad Ali
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
— Toni Morrison
rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."b
— Tony Evans
James 4:6: "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
— Kris Vallotton
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
— George Bernard Shaw