786 Quotes About Arrogance



  • Author Alex Turner
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    We want to do things our way, and people think it's arrogance, so it's inevitable some people will get tired of us.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

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  • Author James Taranto
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    It's not easy to cram so much idiocy, mendacity and arrogance into nine words. ... Dean's assertion is impossible to support rationally.

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  • Author Linda Tripp
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    I think the country needed to know the arrogance - the reckless arrogance - that was going on in the Oval Office.

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  • Author Lynn Turner
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    When people get successful, when people find that they are making a lot of money, it tends to bring with it certain things like arrogance and greed. There was a suspension of disbelief in the 1990s. No one wanted to roil the waters.

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  • Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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    There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

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  • Author Pete Townshend
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    Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

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