John Burroughs Quotes

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.

How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Insecure people don't stage comebacks, since they don't leave the scene.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !