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You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance.
With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.
I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.
I'm good at what I do. I'm really, really good at what I do, and I'm not saying this with any level of arrogance.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time.
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.
There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.
Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.
In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.
If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.