Arrogant Quotes and Sayings On Arrogance to Broaden Your Mind
Arrogant Quotes
“An arrogant bug is a cocky roach.” —American Proverb
“Don’t be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.” —Mina Bissell
“How great some people would be if they were not arrogant.” —The Talmud
“The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.” —Nelson Mandela
“An arrogant man will still feel immortal, even on his death bed.” —Melchor Lim
“Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best. That’s pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.” —Toba Beta
“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life becoming a better person.” —Leo Tolstoy
“Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.” —Suzy Kassem
“Arrogant people are non-learners. They invest their energies in maintaining a cozy feeling of complacency, and complacency is the biggest single enemy to the process of continuously learning from experience. Arrogant people are exactly the sort of people who are destined to have one year’s experience 20 times rather than 20 years’ worth of experience.” —Peter Honey
“Don’t confuse confidence with arrogance. Arrogance is being full of yourself, feeling you’re always right, and believing your accomplishments or abilities make you better than other people. People often believe arrogance is excessive confidence, but it’s really a lack of confidence. Arrogant people are insecure, and often repel others. Truly confident people feel good about themselves and attract others to them.” —Christie Hartman
Quotes about Arrogance
“Never mistake arrogance for intellect.” —D.B. Harrop
“Pride is the mother of arrogance.” —Toba Beta
“Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.” —Terry Pratchett
“Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.” —Metallica
“Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.” —Toba Beta
“Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.” —American Proverb
“Arrogance is founded in weakness and feeds on insecurity.” —Anonymous
“Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.” —Andy Hargreaves
“Knowledge makes people humble, and arrogance makes people ignorant.” —Anonymous
“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” —Albert Einstein
“Blinded by his arrogance, he failed to see the truth.” —Oshiego
“The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.” —Jim Rohn
“Arrogance is a roadblock on the highway of wisdom.” —American Proverb
“Arrogance closes more doors than it opens. Stay Humble.” —Toni Payne
“Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.” —Arab Proverb
“The arrogance of some people makes even their virtues appear vices.” —Bouhours
“Love yourself enough, but not to the point of arrogance.” —Senora Roy
“No matter how great you are, arrogance is not a good sign.” —Younus AlGohar
“Arrogance makes you stronger from the outside, but weaker from the inside.” —Ujas Soni
“Arrogance leads to disaster, sometimes it’s better not to be your own master.” —Luke Garner
“No one will enter the paradise in whose heart is a mustard-seed of arrogance.” —Anonymous
“Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.” —Sivananda
“Never mistake your arrogance for confidence and then let your ignorance become you.” —Ryan Quinlan
“Arrogance is trying to convince others you’re more than who they know you are.” —Bianca Frazier
“Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.” —Tariq Ramadan
“Confidence is believing you are of value. Arrogance is believing you are more valuable than others.” —Anonymous
“I get why people didn’t like me, or don’t like me, because I have an arrogance.” —Graeme Souness
“Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, while confidence is knowing no one is above you.” —Habeeb Akande
“Close some doors today, not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” —Paulo Coelho
“Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.” —Toba Beta
“A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.” —Criss Jami
“Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.” —Laura Teresa Marquez
“Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.” —James Rozoff
“Arrogance is so ridiculous, no one has any reason to be so. Do you not realize how small you are in such a huge world.” —Anonymous
“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.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses.” —Debra Crown
“The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.” —Pixie Lott
“Sometimes it’s difficult to accept, to recognize one’s own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.” —Mikhail Gorbachev
“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.” —Charles Darwin
“There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.” —Criss Jami
“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.” —Desmond Tutu
“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.” —Theodore Bikel
“There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.” —John C. Maxwell
“The opposite of humility is arrogance, the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looks like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.” —John Marks Templeton
“Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause people to behave a certain way that isn’t necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that’s typically the death of success.” —Bob Iger
Arrogance Quotes and Sayings about Arrogant People
“Arrogance diminishes wisdom.” —Arabian Proverb
“Abundance breeds arrogance.” —Argentine Proverb
“Arrogance cometh before reality.” —Wes Fesler
“Arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom.” —Celso Cukierkorn
“Never mistake arrogance for intellect.” —D.B. Harrop
“Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.”
“Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.” —Sun Tzu
“Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.” —Metallica
“Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.” —Toba Beta
“It’s only arrogance if you’re wrong.” —Simone De Beauvoir
“Don’t be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.”
“Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.” —American Proverb
“Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.” —Toba Beta
“Arrogance is a self-defense tactic to disguise insecurities.” —Caroll Michels
“If arrogance were shoes, he’d never go barefoot.” —Tamora Pierce
“People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.” —Travis Luedke
“Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.” —Andy Hargreaves
“Arrogance is shown in one’s respect to the truth.” —Lionel Suggs
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” —George Clooney
“Those who speak the loudest often have nothing to say.” —Anonymous
“Arrogance is a roadblock on the highway of wisdom.” —American Proverb
“The arrogance of some people makes even their virtues appear vices.”
“The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.” —Jim Rohn
“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” —Albert Einstein
“Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.” —Arab Proverb
“Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.”
“Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even weaker from inside.” —Ujas Soni
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.” —Edmund Burke
“Arrogance leads to disaster, sometimes it’s better not to be your own master.” —Luke Garner
“Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.” —Sivananda
“Arrogance is trying to convince others you’re more than who they know you are.” —Bianca Frazier
“It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past.” —Ken Burns
“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.” —George Eliot
“Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.” —Tariq Ramadan
“A man who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” —Suzy Kassem
“Confidence is a nice suit. Arrogance is the same suit with suspenders, Italian loafers, and gold cuff links.” —Tim Schneider
“Arrogance – The best leaders inspire by example. When that’s not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.” —Larry Kersten
“Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.” —Toba Beta
“A little arrogance in the hands of the extremely capable is well earned – and in most case, deserved.” —Siddharth Katragadda
“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look, like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.” —Vanna Bonta
“Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.”
“You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.” —Steffi Graf
“Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life — for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.” —Laura Teresa Marquez
“Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.” —James Rozoff
“Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses.” —Debra Crown
“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit it is offensive.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.” —Charles Darwin
“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.”
“The opposite of humility is arrogance–the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looks like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.” —John Marks Templeton