A Quotes
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“Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.”
Source: Extinction: A Novel
“Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.”
“Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.”
“Arrogance is false confidence. It is born from insecurity.”
Source: Restore Me
“Arrogance is false confidence. It is born from insecurity. Haider pretends to be unafraid. He pretends to be crueler than he is. He lies easily. Than makes him unpredictable and, in som ways, a more dangerous opponent. But the majority of the time his actions are inspired by fear. And that makes him weak.”
Source: Restore Me
“Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.”
“Arrogance is incurable.”
Source: Aiding and Abetting
“Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.”
Source: Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam
“Arrogance is insecurity’s favorite mask.”
“Arrogance is lifelong ascending madness.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Arrogance is nothing more than the attitude of those who have achieved something that could conceal their well of insecurities and meager self-esteem.
Don’t let them fool you.
Knowing that truth makes you more
noteworthy than them.”
Source: Insights of A Rebel Mind: Embracing The Power Within
“Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.”
“Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.”
“Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.”
“Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.”
“Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.”
“Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.”
“Arrogance is the parent of all sins”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Arrogance is the slow poison that eventually kills the knowledge.”
“Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.”
“Arrogance is when my mouth is moving but my words are not.”
“Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.”
Source: Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals
“Arrogance kills creativity.”
“Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.”
“Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.”
Source: If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules
“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.”
“Arrogance reflects in our work when we irrationally start believing in our decision.”
Source: Quantraz
“Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.”
Source: Nectar Stream
“Arrogance requires advertising. Confidence speaks for itself.”
“Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.”
“Arrogance was one of the key factors that kept the white left so factionalized. I felt that instead of fighting together against a common enemy, they wasted time quarreling with each other about who had the right line.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.”
“Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.”
“Arrogant humanity always thinks that among all living beings only humans can write a sensational story in the world! But here's a nano organism called coronavirus - just like other microorganisms of the past - proved the opposite of this!”
“Arrogant men show desperate determination to deny even the evidence to prove their prejudice.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.”
“Arrogant. Overconfident. Vain. Impossible. She hated the way he refused to leave her alone, how he took her insults the same way other boys might take a compliment, and that his interest in her was clearly only part of his role. And yet she could never seem to push him away.”
Source: Legendary
“Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).”
“Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.”
“Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.”
“Arroganz ist die Karikatur des Stolzes.”
Source: Der Geist Der Deutschen Klassiker
“Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!”
Source: The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings
“Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.”
Source: Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life
“Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.”
“Arrows can pierce armor. Mockery and nasty words can pierce my heart”
“Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein