Estimation Quote by Baruch Spinoza Download Open image “Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.” — Baruch Spinoza ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Estimation Oneself Pride Reason Self Self love
“When we think of pride we tend to think about arrogance—the guy who talks about himself all the time. But we don’t often recognize it in the guy who spends his days worrying about his own success even if he never says a word about it. They are both consumed with themselves, but their pride takes different forms. Pride is… — Darrin Patrick Copy Share
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pride is false sense of confidence that makes one feel as better than someone else because of what they have done and accomplished in… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride is yet another form of ego. It keeps us in the past and closes our eyes on the now. It stops us from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be… — John Galt Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, pride weakens your courage, confidence and self-esteem. Pride is protection of a self-image, an image that is nothing more than an ego-mask.” — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is… — Paul Washer Copy Share
Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for a bird… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of. — George Washington Copy Share Image
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
