786 Quotes About Arrogance

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.

We classify the positive traits that protect us from excess as strengths of temperance. What are the types of excess of special concern? Hatred—against which forgiveness and mercy protect us. Arrogance—against which humility and modesty protect us. Short-term pleasure with long-term costs—against which prudence protects us. And destabilizing emotional extremes of all sorts—against which self-regulation protects us.

There’s a distinct difference between confidence and boasting arrogance; when a problem hits a patch of difficult, the arrogant disappear but the confident remains in the fight.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything

The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.