As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient s...
The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.
The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the...
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of...
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness ...
Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.
There is a wicked and pervading arrogance loose on the earth, like a rabid beast, an overdog. Does it run, does it slouch, does its name have a number? The beast preaches contempt, for that's what arrogance says: that nothing is real but itself, and ...
When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. I...
I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.
Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Love is the blind revelation of arrogance.
(ignorance + acceptance) * pride = arrogance
Never mistake arrogance for intellect.
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
