31 Arrogance Quotes To Inspire Humility

In a world where confidence often teeters on the brink of arrogance, maintaining humility can be a powerful yet challenging endeavor. We all occasionally encounter individuals who exude an air of undue self-importance, and perhaps at times, we might even catch glimpses of it within ourselves. To help balance this delicate act, we've put together a collection of the top 31 arrogance quotes designed to inspire humility and introspection. These quotes serve as gentle reminders of the value of modesty and the strength found in true character, offering a touch of wisdom to guide us in our personal and professional lives. Dive into these profound reflections and let them inspire a more grounded and humble approach to your daily encounters.

1. “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” - Virginia Woolf

2. “I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.” - Christopher Hitchens

3. “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” - George Bernard Shaw

4. “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

5. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” - George Clooney

6. “I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.” - Simon Le Bon

7. “Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.” - Toba Beta

8. “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

9. “However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that.” - Richard Williams

10. “One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the goyim were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the Shoah or Endlösung or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for 'exile,' or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the 'proof,' so for a time the professional interpreters of god's will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate.I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.” - Christopher Hitchens

11. “Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.” - Toba Beta

12. “Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.” - Toba Beta

13. “You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight.""Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed out, helping Portia Powers isn't in my best interests.""Then why are you still trying to talk me into seeing Melanie again?""Hunger makes me weird.""You got rid of the last one in fourteen minutes. Well done. I'm rewarding you by letting you sit in on all the introductions from now on."She nearly choked on an ice cube. "What are you talking about?""Exactly what I said.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

14. “Human looks sure on face, while the earth lost in space.” - Toba Beta

15. “Arrogant people beat each other.” - Toba Beta

16. “Snooty knew measly talked muchly.” - Toba Beta

17. “But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.” - Stephen Mitchell

18. “We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.“Pride?” Catelyn snapped. His mocking tone and easy manner made her angry. “Arrogance, some might call it. Arrogance and avarice and lust for power.”“My brother is undoubtedly arrogant,” Tyrion Lannister replied. “My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?” He grinned.” - George R.R. Martin

19. “Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.” - Iain Pears

20. “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.” - Robert MacFarlane

21. “Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.” - Tahir Shah

22. “The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.” - Michael Kazin

23. “I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.” - Faraaz Kazi

24. “Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.” - N.T. Wright

25. “Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.” - Lionel Suggs

26. “With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.” - Jane Austen

27. “...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well. To the poor gentleman there is no other way of showing that he is a gentleman than by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered and helpful; not haughty, arrogant or censorious, but above all by being charitable...and no one who sees him adorned with the virtues I have mentioned, will fail to recognize and judge him, though he know him not, to be of good stock.” - Miguel Cervantes

28. “Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.” - Toba Beta

29. “Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.” - Bianca Frazier

30. “Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.” - R. Alan Woods

31. “Quotes? you want quotes?To sound important, quote yourself” - LeTony Quas Marrazo