Blaise Pascal Quotes

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

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.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

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.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.