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Arrogance Quotes
Confidence earns respect; arrogance rarely does.
Several lines here argue that real strength shows up without needing to boast, whether that means winning without gloating or holding a position of authority without treating it as a license for conceit. Arrogance, in these quotes, is treated as a flaw worth naming rather than admiring.
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- Despondency
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Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
- Man
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
- Ignorance
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When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.
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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
- Nov 07, 2020