C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

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.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

Clearly I've got an ego.

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

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

One may be humble out of pride.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

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

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.