Disgrace Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“The impudence of Ignorance”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius…

— Samuel Johnson

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

— Josemaria Escriva

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are…

— Henry Fielding

We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something…

— Ron Paul

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

— Hannah More

We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

— Sophie Swetchine

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

— Nicholas Ling

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

— William Shakespeare

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

— Vance Havner