Quotes about Pride
The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.
— Mother Angelica
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
— CS Lewis
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
— John Piper
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
— Samuel Johnson
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
— Samuel Johnson
... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
— Paulo Coelho
Your wisdom should be without pride.
— St. Augustine
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
— CS Lewis
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
— St. Augustine
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
— Peter Kreeft
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
— St. Augustine
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?
— Malcolm X