Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.

Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam (ed. Oxford University Press, 2011) - ISBN: 9780199836758