Arrogance Quotes - Page 18

• Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiration, Men, Charity

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• Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Confidence, Sweet, Expectations

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• Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

  Freeman Dyson

  Stars, Rocks, Hands

  "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb". Documentary film, 1981.

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• Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

  John Hope Bryant

  Self, World, Indifference

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• I say this as a big sister in the faith hoping someone might learn an easier way. Arrogance does not bode well. It attracts the rod of God.

  Beth Moore

  Big Sister, Might, Way

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• Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, Doors, Dust

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• I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

  Daniel Craig

  Believe, Actors, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Mirrors, Romance

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• I don't think the NFL has ever seen the likes of me, a quarterback who moves the way I do and throws the way I do. I'm not saying that with arrogance or anything. That is just how I feel.

  Michael Vick

  Moving, Thinking, Nfl

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• If you're not mentally tough,
  If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
  If you don't have the inner arrogance
  That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
  If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
  A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
  And not because you can't.

  Summer Sanders

  Eye, Winning, Focus

  Summer Sanders (1999). “Champions are Raised, Not Born: How My Parents Made Me a Success”

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• Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.

  Peter Singer

  Fighting, Environmental, Allies

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• Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

  Seth Roberts

  Media, Stupidity, Stuff

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• Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, People, Regard

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• Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

  Lynn Margulis

  Discipline, Humanity, Demand

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• We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

  Wendell Berry

  Humility, Doubt, World

  Wendell Berry (2017). “The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.

  David Limbaugh

  Smart, Believe, Effort

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• How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

  Martha Graham

  Knowing, Giving, Dancer

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Greed, Dull

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The big stick, 1905-1907”

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• Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Memories, Thinking, Deeds

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• There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not exist but for the mother who gave them birth. When they assert their superiority they demean her.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mother, Men, Thinking

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• The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, Organization, Reform

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• Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.

  Russell Jacoby

  Past, Thinking, Space

  "Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing". Book by Russell Jacoby, 1975.

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• If you want to be treated like a queen then start acting like one. No arrogance or games. Be humble, graceful, kind & loving.

  Behdad Sami

  Queens, Humble, Games

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• Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance . . . for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.

  Louise Hay

  Gratitude, Love Is, Vanity

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.41, Hay House, Inc

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• One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.

  Theodor Haecker

  Writing, Men, Giving

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