George Savile Quotes

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

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

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

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

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

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

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

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.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

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

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.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

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

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

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

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

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

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

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

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

I'm not great enough to be humble.

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

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.