[The attempt to ensure passage] was a mixture of arrogance and stupidity, … It would have made a Sunni boycott (of Saturday’s vote) inevitable.

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

Arrogant people beat each other.

You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me.But if you ever deliberately provoke me, in a way trying to hurt me, I’m so worried that you will die, or injured with heart full of revenge.The kind of revenge which you will never be able to fully retaliate, a revenge...

Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.Master of Stupidity: If I don’t, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?

I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies.Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms,that was time when I lost my arrogance as human.

Your arrogance doesn’t cheapen me.

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

Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up.

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone’s offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

Money isn’t the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that...

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the...

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make amends, however low he’s fallen,and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornnessbrands you for stupidity – pride is a crime.

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

Dilute your arrogance with a smile.

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

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

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

Quotes? you want quotes?To sound important, quote yourself

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.

When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.

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.

…a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it – and not by spending as he please but by knowing...

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

There is a wicked and pervading arrogance loose on the earth, like a rabid beast, an overdog. Does it run, does it slouch, does its name have a number? The beast preaches contempt, for that’s what arrogance says: that nothing is real but itself, and the bone and blood of another’s being are insubstantial as...

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one.

Arroganz ist die Karikatur des Stolzes.

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

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 __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

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

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.

My brother is undoubtedly arrogant,” Tyrion Lannister replied. “My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?

The high road is littered with pot shots.

I had a dream about you. My pee was cloudy, and I brought an umbrella to the urinal. You were the Coach of the Men’s Room, and you were giving me advice on how to be a better weatherman. But I didn’t listen, because I was the arrogant five-time MVP.

When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There’s no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn’t do it with his chest stuck out.

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.