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“I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?”

People Thinking Knows Men Wells Challenges Education Stupid Mines Pride Fool Claims Criticize Presumptuous Marius

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.”

Ifs Stills Would Be Born Achieve Stupid Pride Proud Tradition Decent Be Proud Breeding Slums Inverted Snobbishness

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.”

Thinking Knows Awareness Stupid Pride Proud Stupidity Clever Etc

Book:The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

Source: The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

“He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”

Able Stupid Pride Fishing Occupation Great Fishing

Author:Leo Tolstoy