Able Quote by Bob Dylan

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

— Adam Clarke

“Pride is the downward drag of all things into an easy solemnity. One "settles down" into a sort of selfish seriousness; but one has…

— G.K. Chesterton

I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue…

— Deepak Chopra

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of…

— Rita Mae Brown

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

— Anonymous

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case…

— Thomas Merton

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior…

— Laozi

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior…

— Lao Tzu

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

— Leonard Cohen

Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which…

— Robert Gordis