“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
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“Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Etc
“With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.”
“Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.”
“In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.”
“Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.”
“Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.”
Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.”
“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”
“Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.”
“It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
Source: The Ethics of Liberty
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“My pride fell with my fortunes.”
Source: As You Like It: Third Series
“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
“That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.”
“Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.”
Source: Works
Source: Gulliver's Travels
Source: Jerusalem: A Simplified Version