Arrogance (n.) is a weed that spoils every good harvest; people pay the presumptuous the respect he demands — and then subtract the excess from his real value, for nothing is repaid more dearly than humiliation.
Arrogance (n.) is rightly called the vice of the intellectual, yet truth owes its respect to it: the thinker wants to build only with the hardest stones — truths — so his edifice outlasts the world.
Arrogance (n.) is unlearned among deserving people; being alone implants it — and the young are arrogant because they live among their own kind, all nothing but like to seem much.
Arrogance (n.) in presumptuous men can publicly commend something great only by presenting it as a preliminary stage of themselves and a bridge to themselves.
Arrogance (n.) is often self-distrust that has got itself drunk so as not to tremble.
Arrogance (n.) is one of illness's temptations: pain strips life of its little enchantments, and the sufferer looks with contempt on the foggy world of the healthy.