The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

— Michel de Montaigne

“According to the Prophet, the four blemishes of knowledge are boasting of one’s knowledge and feeling superior on account of it to recognized scholars,…

— Franz Rosenthal

“Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.”

— Melissa McPhail

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

— Diogenes

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

— Gertrude Stein

“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

— Emmet Fox

The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to…

— Markesa Yeager

“I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

— Mason Cooley

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

— Owen D. Young

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your…

— Criss Jami

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.”

— Aman Jassal

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

— Albert Payson Terhune