Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

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

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

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

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

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

National glory is a deceiving seducer. When it reaches a certain height, it clasps the head with an iron band. The enclosed sees nothing in the mist but his own picture; he is susceptible to no foreign impressions.

I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.

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

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

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.