He who seeks truth, shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty, shall find vanity. He who seeks order, shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification, shall find disappointment. He who considers himself a servant of his fellow beings, shall find joy of self expression. He who seeks self expression, shall fall to the pit of arrogance. Arrogance is incompatible with nature. Through nature, the nature of the universe and the nature of man, we shall seek truth. If we seek truth we shall find beauty.
Arrogance Quotes (222 Quotes)
I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as the very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a mighty intimidating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block Life is Fun.
Honor and Glory, Arrogance and Fame!
We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
We want to do things our way, and people think it's arrogance, so it's inevitable some people will get tired of us.
It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
He has to let everyone know he's the best player on the floor. It could be arrogance, but it sure is fun to watch.
Vijay's just a difficult person to get close to, ... He's a bit of an introvert, which I think is sometimes mistaken for arrogance. Like a lot of athletes, he's not great with people. He's not a diplomat. But he's a down-to-earth, sincere person. He's a good husband, a good father, and it would be hard to find a better friend.
This is the issue that wouldn't go away, ... The pay hike triggered long-standing, simmering anger over the way the Legislature does its business and, indeed, over the way Harrisburg operates. It's a reaction against secrecy and what the voters say is arrogance.
I couldn't believe it. In Portugal every foreign manager or player, if he is just a little good, we make him God. I was stunned so I'm sorry if I seemed arrogant but I don't think I was arrogant. And from that point it was a big challenge because if I didn't succeed like I did in the first year these guys were all waiting for me.
recognized that Utah and Nevada should be united against the arrogance of the East Coast dumping its waste on the West. We still have never addressed the transportation risks, whether on the roads or rails to Skull Valley or Yucca Mountain. That is why this lethal cargo should stay where it is until an acceptable disposal solution can be found.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
It is harder to be poor without murmuring than to be rich without arrogance.
We went to war with a flawed plan that didn't account for the hard work to build the peace after we took down the regime. We also served under a secretary of defense who didn't understand leadership, who was abusive, who was arrogant, who didn't build a strong team.
Someone needs to say from time to time that our leaders are appointed leaders, are engaged in practices that are arrogant.
Many in the unions have demonstrated a level of arrogance and even greed.
Voters were appalled by the Prime Ministers insensitivity to their feelings and saw the governments insistence on proceeding with the contract on the grounds that Malta needed more power supply - as a sign of its arrogance.
With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.
It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.
If it is true radio stations will not play Cliff's records, it is an arrogant unreasonable attitude.
Gordon, his voice cracking, said it might be an oversimplification to say he was immature, materialistic and arrogant ... actions of an arrogant would-be master-of-the-universe.
the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in the modern history of our nation.
Craig is a very confident kid, without being arrogant. I thought he really looked like a point guard tonight, with a great deal of composure.
I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
The fighting in Palestine is a war between the (whole) Islamic nation and the world of arrogance, ... Today, Palestinians are representing the Islamic nation against arrogance.
He came in with a chip on his shoulder. He's got something to prove. They did a good job picking him. They stole one. He's got borderline cockiness, but he's got enough humbleness where you don't think he's arrogant.
I love how one man in the press stood up and said, 'Wait a minute, there is something very wrong here,' ... Especially in the last several years, the press has not done that or not been allowed to do that -- take your pick. We don't have McCarthyism today, but history is repeating itself. . . . Money is everything, there is an arrogance of power, people speak up and are demoted. It's a wonderful time for this movie to come out.
Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
Tom DeLay was brought down by the arrogance and political ambition of the political money machine he helped to build.
We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
The young actors get hit harder because of their age. Because Rat Pack - which Brat Pack is clearly a parody of - was not negative. Brat Pack is. It suggests unruly, arrogant young people, and that description isn't true of these people.
This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.
I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
My confidence is often mistaken for arrogance. That's fine, I rather be mistaken for arrogant than treated like a pushover.
What the hell are you guys thinking The arrogance of this organization is outrageous. This whole thing is unacceptable.
You watch him on TV - we were watching him play Utah - and they do those things. They go out there with that sort of arrogance. That is just them. You expect it and you take it to them.
There was a sense of arrogance under the previous CEOs. There was a feeling that the people in Chicago thought they were the center of the universe.
This is a power grab. This is not about sports anymore, Steve. This is about greed, arrogance, money and power. Sports is gone.
I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.
Today the voters have given a clear message. That the arrogance of the government will not succeed,
Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she's your wife
And loves not me, be you, good lord, assur'd
I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
McComb practiced medicine in a way that only Dr. Frankenstein would practice medicine. He was reckless and arrogant, and it could have been prevented.
I talk to you today about the blessed London battle, which came as a slap in the face to the tyrannical Crusader British arrogance. It is a sip from the glass that Muslims have been drinking from.