Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant."
Draymond Green
Professional Basketball Player
"I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident."
Philip Johnson
Architect
"If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect."
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"What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all."
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"How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?"
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"I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive."
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"He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree."
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"In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view."
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"Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant."
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"If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant."
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"A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge."
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"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."
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"It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself."
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"I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive."
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"Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power."
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"Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it."
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""Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial"
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"There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth."
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"My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant."
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"I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant."
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"Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking."
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"The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place."
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"I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!"
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