David Hume:

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

Duc de La Rochefoucauld:

The true means of being misled is to believe oneself finer than the others.

Frank Lloyd Wright:

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

Friedrich Nietzsche:

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Friedrich Nietzsche:

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

Friedrich Nietzsche:

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

George Eliot:

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Laura Teresa Marquez:

Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life -- for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.

Simone de Beauvoir:

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Stephen Jay Gould:

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Sydney J. Harris:

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Theodore Bikel:

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

William Sloane Coffin, Jr.:

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.