Arrogance

Famous quotes containing the word arrogance:

“The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)