Quotes about Arrogance
Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.
— Ayn Rand
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
— Joseph Addison
Doubt is the heart of the matter. Abolish all doubt, and what's left is not faith, but absolute, heartless conviction. You're certain that you possess the Truth -- inevitably offered with an implied uppercase T -- and this certainty quickly devolves into dogmatism and righteousness, by which I mean a demonstrative, overweening pride in being so very right, in short, the arrogance of fundamentalism.
— Graham Greene
Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride
— Graham Greene
I drive through the streets and I care not a damn, The people they stare, and they ask who I am; And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.
— Graham Greene
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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— LM Montgomery
To change one's disposition is a greater achievement than to change one's dress. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems.
— Jerome
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
— St. John Chrysostom