Lack of Humility Quotes

Many intellectuals with high accomplishments seem to assume that those accomplishments confer validity to their notions about a broad swath of issues, ranging far beyond the scope of their accomplishments.

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

All complaining comes from pride.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

History should teach humility and prudence, but America doesn’t seem to learn. I’ve never seen a virgin who loses her innocence more often.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

We are so conceited and so unproud.

Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, he’s the master of the universe, so there’s nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.