Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

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

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Pride is a fool's fortress

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

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

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

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

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

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

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.