Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book. "That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

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.

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

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

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

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

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.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.