I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I’d write a check to buy it back.

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are...

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Don’t you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

Professors stare down from their podiums; that’s their insecurity.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.

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

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday – because of a doctor’s arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are...

The blessed London attack was one which al-Qaida was honored to launch against the British Crusader’s arrogance and against the American Crusader aggression on the Islamic nation for 100 years,

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science...

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Stupidity mixed with arrogance mixed with anger mixed with adrenaline is a deadly combination. Just as deadly as adding fries and a soda and making it a combo meal.

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics...

The peacock’s plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!

The fighting in Palestine is a war between the (whole) Islamic nation and the world of arrogance, … Today, Palestinians are representing the Islamic nation against arrogance.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

We now have a two-party system that is overwhelmed with its own arrogance and complacency, … It offers little more than Band-Aids for some of the nation’s problems and does not project a sense of...

This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.

It’s typical of their arrogance.

I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she’s a bit full of herself.

It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the...

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in...

You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren’t your fault. People who care don’t want to add to that.” He paused, and then added gently, “But you assumed it was about you.” I...

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually...

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed.

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to...

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look — like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

[Soetsu Yanagi’s] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am right in saying Yanagi’s belief was that the good artist of craftsman has...

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

Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

His (Lincoln’s) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody’s feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody’s destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done...

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I’d rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

…If there’s one thing I’m well versed in it’s my own good qualities.

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

The blessed London attack was one which al Qaida was honoured to launch against the British Crusader’s arrogance and against the American Crusader aggression on the Islamic nation for 100 years.

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?