One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
One may be humble out of pride.
People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.
Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.
If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.