“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“There is an affected humility more unsufferable than downright pride, as hypocrisy is more abominable than libertimsm. Take care that your virtues be genuine and unsophisticated.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
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Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) American artist
Somehow a Past, 1933-c, 1939; unpublished manuscript, Hartley Archive, Yale University; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 11
1931 - 1943
“Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.”
Marquis de Sade Philosophy in the Bedroom
First Dialogue, Delmonce
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
“Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.”
Bernard Mandeville book The Fable of the Bees
"An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 294
The Fable of the Bees (1714)
“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian
The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 144.
Handbook of the Christian Soldier (1503)
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) British composer, writer and grocer
(from vol 2, letter 42: 9 Oct 1779, to Mr M___ ) [describing a friend]
“They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.”
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Source: Mockingjay
Freeman Dyson book Infinite in All Directions
Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1 : In Praise of Diversity
Context: There is no easy solution to the conflict between fundamentalist Christian dogma and the facts of biological evolution. I am not saying that the conflict could have been altogether avoided. I am saying only that the conflict was made more bitter and more damaging, both to religion and to science, by the dogmatic and self-righteousness of scientists. What was needed was a little more human charity, a little more willingness to listen rather than to lay down the law, a little more humility. Scientists stand in need of these Christian virtues just as much as preachers do.
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
Al-Khisal, p. 4
[Baqir Shareef al-Qurashi, Jasim al-Rasheed, The Life of Imam Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Baqir, His traditions from the Prophet, 1999]