Arrogance Quotes - Page 24

• Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.

  J. A. Jance

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

  Alison Lurie

  Self, Land, America

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Ideas, Two, Temptation

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• When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.

  Claudius Aelianus

  Mean, Dresses, Magnificence

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• It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it's mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn't going to beat you, and that translates to the court.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Self, Arrogant

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Farce, Fool, Human Nature

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• Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Feelings, Justified, Insolence

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• There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Rights, Latitude

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.723, eKitap Projesi

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• In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Simplicity, Plenitude

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• Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Silly, Men

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

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• It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.

  John Dos Passos

  Smart, Men, Thinking

  John Dos Passos (1969). “One man's initiation: 1917: a novel”

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• If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Self, Giving, Feelings

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.167, University of Chicago Press

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• Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.

  Paul Tillich

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Children

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• Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

  Samuel Richardson

  Depressing, Lying, Pride

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• Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

  Mason Cooley

  Smile, Pride

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• If the doctors cure
  then the sun sees it.
  If the doctors kill
  then the earth hides it.
  The doctors should fear arrogance
  more than cardiac arrest.

  Anne Sexton

  Doctors, Earth, Sun

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Important, Peers

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

  Mason Cooley

  Needs, Privilege, China

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• Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Peace, Truth

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• We are so conceited and so unproud.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humility, Pride, Conceited

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

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• This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sex, Forgiving, Doctrine

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

  Owen Feltham

  Weed, Growing Up, Fall

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• Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

  Wilfred Bion

  Obstruction

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