Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

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

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

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

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

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

He that is always right is usually wrong.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

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

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

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

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

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

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

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

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.