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Arrogance Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Arrogance steals your potential. Preparation and effort accelerate your chances at reaching your potential.”

Patrick Bet-David

Arrogance, Preparation, Effort, Potential, Success

2. “Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.”

Douglas Adams

Intelligence, Perspective, Species Comparison, Humor, Arrogance

3. “Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.”

Michel de Montaigne

Presumption, Human Nature, Vulnerability, Arrogance, Paradox

4. “It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arrogance, Greatness, Human Nature, Social Commentary, Character Flaw

5. “Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority.”

Aldous Huxley

Insecurity, Arrogance, Superiority, Tone, Human Behavior, Psychological Insight

6. “You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.”

Orson Scott Card

Culture, Supremacy, Arrogance, Prejudice, Cultural Blindness, Missed Opportunities

7. “Unless he's really clever," said Theresa. "Smarter than us?" said Peter. He and John Paul looked at each other. Then both of them shook their heads, said, "Naw," and then burst out laughing.”

Orson Scott Card

Intelligence, Arrogance, Humor, Confidence, Self Assessment, Group Dynamics

8. “Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.”

Alexandre Dumas

Perceived Superiority, Knowing Lives, False Assumptions, Judgment, Insight, Arrogance

9. “Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.”

John Keats

Power, Knowledge, Arrogance, Enlightenment, Wisdom, Dominance

10. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

Tony Hsieh

Staying Humble, Avoiding Arrogance, Self Awareness, Humble, Arrogance, Awareness

11. “I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.”

Henry Miller

Deceitful Behavior, Power Dynamics, Moral Ambiguity, Manipulation, Arrogance, Class

12. “I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Arrogance Vs Modesty, Personal Traits, Arrogance, Modesty, Traits, Personal

13. “Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Personal Growth, Arrogance Vs Humility, Growth, Arrogance, Humility, Change

14. “He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

Voltaire

Ignorance Questions, Knowledge, Reflection, Critique, Arrogance

15. “There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.”

Elbert Hubbard

Ego Humility, Pride, Thought, Self, Arrogance

16. “Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven’t any to speak of.”

Elbert Hubbard

Culture Pride, Society, Knowledge, Superficial, Arrogance

17. “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge, Arrogance, Wisdom, Humility, Expertise, Annoyance

18. “People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

Isaac Asimov

Arrogant Knowledge, Intellectual Humor, Perceived Wisdom, Knowledge, Humor, Arrogance

19. “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.”

Coco Chanel

Arrogance Expression, Confidence Attitude, Powerful Gaze, Arrogance, Power, Strength

20. “Likewise, the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod next to women.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Gender Critique, Male Ego, Feminist Perspective, Power Dynamics, Superiority, Arrogance

21. “Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.”

Jane Austen

Conceit, Arrogance, Narrow-minded, Vanity, Marriage, Judgment

22. “Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.”

George R. R. Martin

Pride, Humility, Beggars, Social Status, Class, Arrogance

23. “Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty – necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.”

James Baldwin

Religion, Arrogance, Cruelty, Spiritual Duty, Faith

24. “Cause Blindness blunts humility and exaggerates arrogance.”

Simon Sinek

Leadership, Humility, Arrogance, Innovation, Awareness

25. “The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.”

Jim Rohn

Arrogance, Ignorance, Humility, Learning, Awareness

26. “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.”

Robert Kiyosaki

Arrogance, Criticism, Risk, Learning, Growth

27. “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, Merit, Philosophy, Human Nature, Social Dynamics