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It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A smile with just enough arrogance to be irresistible. — Nalini Singh

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame. — Walter Russell Mead

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. — Sun Tzu

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life — Paulo Coelho

Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance. — Seth Roberts

He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance — Julian Fellowes

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. — Jim Rohn

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis — Philip Zaleski

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence. — Criss Jami

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. — Justin Cronin

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet. — Gwenda Bond

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance, — Greg Grandin

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?
Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version. — Toba Beta

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy. — John Landgraf

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy. — Stella Payton

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny. — Dennis Garvin

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority. — Sam Owen

It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third decimal point — Mary Roach

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt. — Immanuel Kant

When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy. — Teresa Mummert

Del Usion
If you knew the person
He thinks he is
You'd have to admit
He's one very special guy. — Laurence Overmire

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self. — Balroop Singh

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain." — Werner Heisenberg

Dad's Theory of Arrogance
that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance. — Lawrence Fagg

His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake
one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith) — Vince Flynn

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description. — Gail Carriger

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach. — Greg Rucka

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back. — Brian Spellman

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance. — Richard Dawkins

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion. — Dan Jones

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission. — Alan Redpath

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another. — Elizabeth Eulberg

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. — Niall Ferguson

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time. — Dean Cavanagh

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. — George Eliot

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.
It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger. — Toba Beta

For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible? — Renee Ahdieh

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

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. — Ron Suskind

Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside. — Ujas Soni

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. — Ambrose Bierce

The arrogance of these people! — Soheir Khashoggi

Patriotic to the point of arrogance, quick to take offense at any seeming slight of his beloved country and government — Craig Pittman

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. — Alexander Haig

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power. — Jordan Wolfson

Politics, religion and arrogance are problems of society but being a fanatic in any...makes you a danger to humanity. — Timothy Pina

The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance. — Lao-Tzu

The wisdom from failure is greater than the arrogance of success. — A.J. Garces

Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings. — Jackie Collins

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. — Marcus Aurelius

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance. — R.C. Sproul

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm, and intelligence — Slavoj Zizek

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation? — Francis Chan

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. — Chris Lowe

To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself. — Ashly Lorenzana

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was "false," the best thing he could say is that it was "interesting. — Dexter Palmer

God save me from fools with a little philosophy - no one is more difficult to reach. — Epictetus

The only sin is pride. — Robert F. Kennedy

I'm too old to know everything — Oscar Wilde

We cannot ignore the meaning of mad cow. It is one more warning about unintended consequences, about human arrogance and the blind worship of science. — Eric Schlosser

Arum: But where will your arrogance be when we absorb your powers?
Daemon: In the same place as my foot. You know, as in up your ass. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence. — Warren Eyster

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. — Max Lucado

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all. — Mason Cooley

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns

Arrogance is a veneer
a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. — Bob Lewis

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.
Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". — Richard Nance

Dumbfounded arrogance can clutch a man, but woe will certainly kill him — Aaron Ozee

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it? — Aaron B. Powell

It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people. — Chetan Bhagat

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing. — Criss Jami

Snooty knew measly talked muchly. — Toba Beta

Thomas had never heard such arrogance from her. She was either a really good actress or had started going crazy. Gained a split personality or two. — James Dashner

Rude is arrogance. Rude is feeling like you're above people. Getting to the point of things ain't rude, sugar. — Belle Aurora

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. — Criss Jami

Your arrogance lessens your beauty. — Toba Beta

The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride. — T.A. Cline

Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else,
Confidence is knowing no one is above you. — Habeeb Akande

We speak of love when we destroy nature.
It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance. — Toba Beta

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. — Max Lucado

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie. — John Irving

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal. — Anne Wilson Schaef

The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing.
Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building. — Toba Beta

There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance. — Ian-Anthony Finnimore

One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know. — Jimmy Breslin

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers. — Wesley Snipes

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next. — Tony McCoy

We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance. — Michio Kushi

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It takes just a litte attitudinal slip to show a big pride. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah