Amount Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

“There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at…

— Samuel Johnson

“Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive…

— Paulo Coelho

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

— Baruch Spinoza

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

— Henry Bolingbroke

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

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they…

— Saint Bernard

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of…

— Paulo Coelho

“It is a great error to be superior to others…It is such pride as this that makes a man appear a fool, makes him…

— Yoshida Kenko

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave…

— Joanna Baillie

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

— Kenneth Clark

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own…

— Paul Brunton