Immanuel Kant Quotes

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

He spoils his undoubted talents by his excessive assurance, his contempt for other people's point of view, and his attitude of a king in exile.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.