Linda Sue Park Quotes

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

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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

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

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

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

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

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

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

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

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

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.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.