Quotes about pride

There is nothing worse than a cultural barbarian with pretensions.

Smugness kills all utopias.

“The trouble with you,” the Ugly Girl said, “is that you think you know just what everyone should do, don’t you?”

The Mad Duke smiled at her. His face was bright and sharp, smooth and glittering. “Yes,” he said, “I do.”

“And what,” she said, “if you’re wrong?”

“And what,” he said, “if I’m not?”

From the Near Rim to the farthest of occupied systems, planets circled their suns, and men lived on them, and every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss.

It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as the enemy.

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.

Nobody will admit his own mental inferiority, even to himself.

It sounds rather silly, doesn’t it? One little man thinking he can change history all by his lonesome. A lot of trouble has been caused by that delusion.

These are the men…well, these are the men who actually change the world. And they terrify me. For men never see as far as they think they do.

Men often place pride before reason.

Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.