John Ruskin Quotes

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

Sometimes, you can get too big when you feel too good.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?