Mark Twain Quotes

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.