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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.


Samuel Butler

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
MARK TWAIN Hypocrisy, arrogance, pride, anger, harshness, and ignorance; these are the marks of those who are b...
BHAGAVAD GITA There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It le...
POPE FRANCIS The five troubles or evils of the mind are passion, anger, ignorance, arrogance, pride,to anything, ...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relate...
JANE AUSTEN Ignorance and arrogance dominates this world.
NOAH WERNER SOMERVILLE All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER Arrogance is worse than ignorance, seeing as ignorance can be cured, but arrogance must be purged.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The greatest examples of human ignorance and arrogance is believing that you are the body, the mind ...
JACK TYME Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and sel...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
ROBERT FULGHUM Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
PAUL DAVID TRIPP Vanity is the polite mask of pride.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arro...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is meaningless and vanity if you don't acknowledge and honor GOD
DENNIS ALEJO It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is...
RICHIE NORTON Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
GARTH NIX The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL Fear and realization of ignorance were strong medicines against stupid pride.
GARTH NIX Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
JONATHAN SWIFT Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.
PROVERB My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting ...
JANE AUSTEN ...when Clive stood from the piano and shuffled to the doorway to turn out the studio lights, and lo...
IAN MCEWAN If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your dispositio...
JANE AUSTEN Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?"

Sometimes. One must speak a little, yo...
JANE AUSTEN I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]
JANE AUSTEN When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...
DALE CARNEGIE Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD peace brings ignorance. war brings arrogance. ignorance bings war, war brings arrogance, arrogance b...
THOMAS PRICE Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins."
"I will kill twe...
STEVE HOCKENSMITH Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A teenager is a being result of a mix of ignorance, arrogance and naiveness; who thinks is a grown u...
JAIRO FERNáNDEZ English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and a...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.
KEDAR JOSHI You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures o...
DALE CARNEGIE When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures o...
DALE CARNEGIE Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. Al...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.
MATTHEW PRIOR I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of
divine vanity.
KEDAR JOSHI When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing...
DALE CARNEGIE When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing...
DALE CARNEGIE Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
WILLIAM PENN In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinen...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away....
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA You're a throwback."
"To what?"
Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxic...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
JOANNA BAILLIE Pride is something we have. Vanity is something others have.
UNKNOWN The first sign of ignorance is believing that the world is a simple place to live. The first sign of...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCAL Vanity is nothing without the regular people that notice I'm good looking.
CRAIG DEARING Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture o...
DAVID KINNAMAN He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing.
Briefl...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least
JOHN GAY He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems wo...
LYNN VIEHL Obstinate, headstrong girl!
JANE AUSTEN Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that a...
WOLE SOYINKA Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. Al...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Filled with insatiable desires, hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance; holding wrong views due to delusion...
BHAGAVAD GITA For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge tha...
E. M. FORSTER Arrogance makes one victim of self pride and inflicts with the fondness of selfishness to the degree...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will ...
JANE AUSTEN Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilit...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN A true man is one who finds in himself no Vanity, Arrogance or Self-Importance but rather humbles hi...
POATE J MATAIRAVULA THE PRIDE OF ENLIGHTENMENT! POVERTY MAKES FOOLISH ONE'S PRIDE IN ONE'S ENLIGHTENMENT.
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they c...
SORIN CERIN The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BENEDICT SPINOZA An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less adv...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Pride can destroy a man quicker than ignorance.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the l...
DUOP CHAK WUOL By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on ...
JAMES MADISON What has been the fruit of religion? Pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance in the laity, in b...
JAMES MADISON Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people&...
CORNEL WEST In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.
IAN-ANTHONY FINNIMORE We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a ...
ERIC HOFFER Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at th...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he do...
CRISS JAMI Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in ti...
BLAISE PASCAL When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?
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SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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