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 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 unwise — those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end
Arrogance (n.) is often to be found accompanying ignorance - the two words don't just rhyme.
Conceit (n.) may puff a man up, but it never props him up.
Conceit (n.) is incompatible with understanding.
Conceit (n.) is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Conceit (n.) is the ability to thin k about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Conceitedness (n.) is loudest in the rooms where it is least contested.
Conceitedness (n.) is being so full of yourself that you are quite empty
Conceitedness (n.) is at last the victim of those who praise him most; for "none are more taken in by flattery than the proud.
Conceitedness (n.) is unwise — the person who is all wrapped up in himself is overdressed.
Dignity (n.) is the happiness of fools.
Dignity (n.) is the disguise of the timid — ceremony, robes, solemn stare, slow pace, convoluted speech — meant to make people afraid; the truly fearsome need none and bring plain honesty into repute.
Dignity (n.) is the bodily attitude of a speaker or a preacher in the presence of people whose duty it is to believe he is not lying to them.