To be honest, 'arrogant' doesn't feel like quite the right word. It's not specific enough.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good.

Being arrogant towards a fraudster in power = iconoclast. Being arrogant towards a regular person = psychologist.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you fucking options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't fucking call.

Arrogance attracts hatred and envy. Elegance arouses respect and Love. Arrogance causes us to humiliate our fellow man or woman. Elegance teaches us to walk in the light. Arrogance complicates words, because it believes that intelligence is only for the chosen few. Elegance transforms complex thoughts into something that everyone can understand.

I can’t tell if that’s you being passive aggressive or you being willfully obtuse.

Arrogance causes enmity.

Arrogance is asking a god who wouldn't stop the holocaust to find your car keys.

The very idea that your private thoughts or feelings are worth sharing with anyone outside your family or friends is already a kind of arrogance. Arrogance is the exit and entry point to the humiliation that art requires.

Arrogance is ignorance plus conviction,” blogger Tim Urban explains. “While humility is a permeable filter that absorbs life experience and converts it into knowledge and wisdom, arrogance is a rubber shield that life experience simply bounces off of.

When as****les call you "arrogant", you are on the right side of ethics.

The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking.