786 Quotes About Arrogance

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.

Arrogancia, esa es la primera causa de muerte tanto entre los reyes como entre los vasallos. Cuídate de su afilada hoja. Suele herir a la persona que la empuña más que a los demás.

Small-mindedness is intensified by things such as big-headedness.

A man told me that my thoughts are opinions, so I asked back if he knows the difference between facts and opinions. He couldn’t differentiate them. And I had to conclude I was talking with an arrogant lunatic. He did admit to be arrogant, but the conversation was over before I could prove him lunatic as well.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

A world full of "certainties"All the plans, all the vanities.Where black covers the whiteSuited in "confidence"- the constant fight.A million roads I dream to takeOne destination, knowing not I turn where.A green veil covers for two years, some two decades.But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make.I pant, I struggle, I do my best While they say,"You are, dear, but so inadequate".

Animals are forever true to their God-given natures, communicating well enough with canny precision in languages we are perhaps too arrogant to understand.