Arrogance Quotes - Page 28

• You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.

  Jonathan Yardley

  War, Ignorance, Government

  "David Halberstam". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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• AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

  A. O. Scott

  Levels, Film, Incompetence

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• As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

  N. T. Wright

  Healing, Pride, Greed

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.56, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

  Joseph Addison

  Pride, Men, Riches

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• Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

  Alice Walker

  Education, Ignorance, Racism

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• The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hands, Able, Staggering

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.411, Faber & Faber

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• The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Christian, Heaven, Ifs

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• If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Humility, Library

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

  Margaret Deland

  People, Doubt, Pearls

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• Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Mind, Civility

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.651, Delphi Classics

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• the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Spiritual, Strong, Desire

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• Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

  J. Martin Klotsche

  Hate, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

  Robert Haugen

  Triumph, Elegance, Certain

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 148, 1999.

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• someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

  Jan Burke

  Accepted, Application, Position

  Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miscarriage, Despair, Weakness

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.263

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• I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

  James Corden

  Sometimes, Over Confidence

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

  Lucy Freeman

  Frightened, Snob

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• Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

  Ali MacGraw

  Thinking, Good Movie, Stuff

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• The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.

  Jean Ziegler

  Rocks, Self, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jail, Enemy, Arrogant

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.

  Dave Ulrich

  Dedication, People, Leader

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than any other creature. I have had long and fruitful relationshis with many nonhuman animals, both domesticated and wild, and have reveled in the bouquet of radically different intelligences - different forms, not different "quantities" that they have introduced to me, each in his or her own time, in his or her own way.

  Derrick Jensen

  Intelligent, Animal, Long

  Derrick Jensen, Karen Tweedy-Holmes (2007). “Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos”, p.87, No Voice Unheard

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• The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Smart, Lying, Thinking

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• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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